The process of selection shall be through the Board of Admissions as any other Knight or Dame. Special groups are by definition as follows:įrom time to time the Federation may wish to honor someone for special reasons, and even to consider such individual exempt from any obligatory economic commitment. The Grades of Knighthood of the Federation ingranting sequence are:ġ. In accordance with the personal achievements or services rendered to the Federation, active Knights or Dames may request and accede, when granted, to the consecutive grade. Knights and Dames of Grand Magisterial Grace : All Knights and Dames other than the Knights and Dames of Justice or Knights and Dames of Honor and Devotion are Knights and Dames of Grand Magisterial Grace.Īll members of the Federation regardless of the class in which they were received, are invested as Knights or Dames. Knights and Dames of Honour and Devotion : Persons of Noble Ancestry or with a Grant of Nobility conferred by the Federation. Knights and Dames of Justice: Persons of noble ancestry who are holders of hereditary knighthood rights, or persons with a Grant of Nobility conferred by the Federation and upon whom by a Grand Magisterial Special Act have also been conferred Hereditary Knighthood Rights. ![]() In accordance to the personal rights of each Knight or Dame, or in accordance to the rights granted by personal achievements or by services rendered to the Federation, after the appropriate request, active members of the Federation are distributed in the following Classes of Knighthood: Knights and Dames: All invested members of the Federation are considered rightfully Knights and Dames of the Federation, regardless of class or grade. Postulants for Knighthood: Accepted candidates for knighthood, who have complied with all membership procedures, are automatically considered for a period of not less than thirty days Postulants to Knighthood and will remain as such until properly invested as Knight or Dame of the Federation. Squires and Damsels Unmarried persons, (male or female) with less than twenty years of age. Types of membership to the Federation are defined in accordance with the following definitions: In addition there are two special groups. Thou shall be everywhere and always champion of right and good against violence, injustice and evil.Īll members of the Federation are organized by type of membership, by class and by grade of knighthood. Thou shall be generous, and support with generosity all needy and indigent. Thou shall bear always witness to the truth by words and deeds, and remain steadfast to the pledged word. Thou shall perform faithfully all duties avoiding anything contrary to the law of your God. Thou shall fight low human instincts and strive for the establishment of love in all things and to all persons. Thou shall stand steadfast before the enemy of truth and good. Thou shall love, honor and defend your country with your own good conduct. Thou shall respect the dignity of all persons and shall became their defender regardless their weakness or human imperfections. Thou shall defend the Order in good and bad days. Thou shall accept thy Orderďs governance and its worthy commandments. The ten Commandments of the Chivalric code of Honour are The Order is honored and becomes worthier each day by the quality of the human worth of his members while each particular Knight/Dame receives the social prestige and consideration of belonging to a prominent brotherhood. This creates an intimate relation between the Knight/Dame and the Order. ![]() Is precisely for these reasons, and for respect to his/her fellow Knights and Dames that each member of the Federation shall abide him/herself to respect and to follow strictly the Chivalric Code of Honour, in a way that each and every one of his acts will reflect a human being adorned with the virtues of honesty, truthfulness, concern, consideration, gentleness and good manners. These premises hold true on the perception and consideration of the outside world about the Federation as a whole, and likewise in the perception, consideration and self-pride of belonging displayed by each single one of its members as a Knight or Dame of Malta. The perception and consideration of the outside world of the worth and quality of a group is established and measured not from the worth, quality and conduct of the single member with the highest standards, but from the worth, quality and conduct of the single member with lesser degree of values. The worth and quality of a group is equivalent to the worth and quality of each one of its single members.
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