Order of Malta honours art historian
Joy: An Order of Malta summer camp in Italy, this year
Joy: An Order of Malta summer camp in Italy, this year
AN ART historian, Dr Paul Caffrey, made history in Dublin last
month by becoming the first Irish professed Knight of the Order of
Malta since Henry VIII separated his Church from the See of Rome.
Accompanied by the Prince and Grand Master of the Order of Malta,
an Archbishop, many black-robed members of the Order processed into
St Kevin's, a Roman Catholic church in Dublin, to witness Dr
Caffrey's profession as an Irish Knight of Justice.
The Prince and Grand Master, Fra' Matthew Festing, who has the
status of a Cardinal in Canon Law, led the ceremony. The RC
Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Diarmuid Martin, was in attendance.
The Order of Malta has have diplomatic links with 104 States,
but not with the Republic of Ireland, where its main function since
the 1930s has been in the voluntary sector, caring for the ill and
poor.
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