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Caption: Order of Malta KNIGHTS
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Caption: This month the Order of Malta, association of The Netherlands, celebrated her yearly Knights Day in the old Dutch town of Utrecht.
This Stellerstory gives you a little inside of this special day.
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Caption: The Order
The Order of Malta is a Roman Catholic religious order of military, chivalrous and nobel nature. It is the world's oldest surviving order of chilvalry.
Today the order has some 13.000 members, 80.000 permanent volunteers and 20.000 medical personnel in more than 120 countries. Their goal is to assist elderly, handicapped, refugeed, children, homeless and sick in all parts of the world, without distinction of race or religion.
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Caption: MALTESE CROSS The knights and dames of the Order of Malta can be recognised by the eight-pointed cross, refering to the eight beautitudes.
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Caption: Tuitio Fidei
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Obsequium Pauperum Protection of Faith
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Service to the Poor
Caption: All pictures by
Peter Paul van Voorst
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