Today, February 15, 1113 (yes, 912 years ago): Pope Paschal II issues “Pie Postulatio Voluntatis” (English: The Most Pious Request), recognizing the Order of Hospitallers. (Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem).
The entities generally considered to maintain historical continuity with the Knights are the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, based in Rome, the Bailiwick of Brandenburg of the Chivalric Order of Saint John of the hospital at Jerusalem, Johanniter Orde in Nederland, Order of Saint John in Sweden, and the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem.
May Our Lady, St Joseph, and Blessed Gerard , intercede for us.