From: Stella Maris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Message: 16 > From: Tim Carmain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: The Order of St Lazarus of Jerusalem, in Edinburgh > >---Kate Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Longstanding subscribers may just remember a brief exchange some time >> ago, when I mentioned that my father had been a member of the Order of >> St Lazarus of Jerusalem, <snip> >> >> -- >> Kate B Thanks for that, Kate. I'll definitely have a look at the place next time I'm in Edinburgh. (Sorry I missed Hildegard, BTW, life has been frantic, more anon...) > I had the dubious distincion of >belonging to the Maltese Langue before it was put out of business here >in the U.S. >Tim Carmain This is interesting, Tim. The former, now deceased, owner of Castle Matrix in Ireland (which was, until recently, the chancellry of the Dragon Order) was a member of the Order of Lazarus. He was actually an American ex-military officer, a Colonel John Driscoll (aka Sean O'Driscoll), rumoured to be Number 2 in the CIA in Europe, which was said to be based in Paris. There is green Maltese Cross, the emblem of the Order of St Lazarus, painted on the chimney breast in the library at Castle Matrix. There are references to the split which occurred in the late 60s/early 70s in some of the documents there, apparently the Colonel's branch broke away from the Maltese branch. Your story fits in with that... so, I wondered what happened next?? I get the impression that the Colonel carried on with SOMETHING... even if the US branch DIDN'T. Hmmm, curious... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, or to change your subscription to digest, go to the ONElist web site, at http://www.onelist.com and select the User Center link from the menu bar on the left.
