Meanings of knights of st. john in English

It once belonged to the Knights of St. John, whence its name.

It seems unromantic; but THESE were not the romantic Knights of St. John.

Grandmaster of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, and defender of Malta against Solyman in 1565.

But the most pitiable of all the galley slaves were those of the knights of St. John of Malta.

Their bravery and good conduct gained them the esteem and respect of all the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem.

In Malta he painted for the Knights of St. John, becoming a Knight himself, until the Order imprisoned him for fighting.

And the speaker once more took up Vertot, and was soon lost amid the glories of the knights of St. John.

Malta was a home of Scouting, since the Knights of St. John, who settled there after the Crusades, were typical Scouts.

Before these grim invaders the Venetians and the Knights of St. John, the last representatives of Western power, slowly evacuated the Eastern Mediterranean.

There the King's coffers were replenished with their spoil, very little of which ever found its way to the Knights of St. John.

On the five shilling stamps of Malta we find the Maltese cross, emblem of the Knights of St. John and reminiscent of the crusades.

This morning at eight o'clock we disembarked, and were marched off to keep quarantine in the magnificent castle of the Knights of St. John.

There remained only one religious order in England; the knights of St. John of Jerusalem, or the knights of Malta, as they are commonly called.

The gentlemen of the court escorted him into the house of the Knights of St. John, where he lodged with two counsellors of the Elector.

The Moslems ever gain in power, and it may well be that the Knights of St. John will be hardly pressed to hold their own.

Therefore they were suppressed, and, with the general approval of Europe, a portion of their possessions was handed over to the knights of St. John.