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Phoenix, Arizona (Aug. 11, 2008)—On July 12, 2008 Rev. Terri Mansfield, Dr. Rebecca Hardcastle, Dr. Lynne D. Kitei, and Rev. Annie Loyd were knighted into The Sovereign Medical Order of the Knights Hospitaller of Saint John of Jerusalem. The investiture was held in Brophy Chapel in Phoenix Arizona. His Excellency, the Honorable Professor Charles McWilliams, Grand Master of the Sovereign Medical Order of the Knights Hospitaller of St. John of Jerusalem, conducted the ceremony.
Other Arizona residents also knighted as Hospitallers on July 12 include.
Rev. Joyce Buekers, Dr. Gladys McGarey, Patricia & Stephen McCarty, Dr. Paul & Lydia Mohr, Dr. Nabil Dib, Lynne Ericksson, Susan French, Laurie Eberst, Marie Mohr-Grandstaff, Dr. Nicholas & Nancy Meyer, Santo D. Prato, Dr. Noel Carrasco, Dr. David Korn, Joel Lehr, Sr., Reggie & Katherine Vinson, Leonardo Zacchino, Matteo Zacchino, In addition, other Arizonans were knighted within the past year: Sherry Lund (Dame of Grace and Ambassador), Bill Lund (Knight of Grace), Dr. Al Mitrano (Grand Prior of Arizona), Dr. Marines Pinto Mitrani, Dr. Mark Starr.
The Knights Hospitaller is collaborating on two projects in the greater Phoenix area. The Hospitallers are partnering with Grand Dame Sherry Lund, founder of The Celebration Centre for Integrated Healing in Gilbert, Arizona, across from Mercy Gilbert Medical Center. In the formative stages, the Celebration Center is the only campus of its kind to offer advanced natural and integrated treatments from all over the world. Celebration will provide a cutting-edge approach to diagnosing and treating patients using the Radical Loving Care philosophy. The Doctors at Celebration are from different disciplinary backgrounds and will work as a team. The Living Medicine Theater at Celebration will provide ongoing health education to the medical profession as well as to the community. Research at Celebration will bring the most current therapies to the patients. Whole body healing is the goal. Living Medicine is the mission.
The Hospitallers are also partnering with the Murphy School District/Phoenix Rotary 100 Education and Health Center. Murphy School District Superintendent Dr. Paul B Mohr was recently inducted into the Knights of the Hospitallers. The Hospitallers will support the center through its pool of volunteer naturopathic physicians throughout the world. Since the Health Center will operate under the auspices of the Hospitallers it will be on the international list of Hospitaller clinics and hospitals. Hospitaller Grand Dame Sherry Lund and the Victoria Lund Foundation have donated operational costs for the Health Center.
The Order originated in 1048 in Jerusalem. In the eleventh century they established hospitals for pilgrims and offered protection for their journey. The Order is responsible for establishing hospitals and hospices across Europe, South America, the Philippines, and the Middle East. The Knights settled in Malta where they remained for 250 years, until Napoleon took the island. Russian Emperor Paul I then took the Order of Knights under his protection and became the Grand Master in 1799.
Under Geneva Convention and International Humanitarian Law, the Cross of the Hospitallers is entitled to the same recognition by belligerents in war as the Red Cross. The Order maintains a marked degree of independence, and placed it amongst the first of the international organizations to be recognized by international law as an Ecclesiastical Order.
The development and expansion of the Order has influenced the course of world history. Its hospitals made dramatic contributions to medicine and hygiene such as the procedures for quarantine, separation of patients into single beds, conduct and rules for nursing, and education for doctors.
The current mission of the Knights Hospitaller is to establish, equip, staff and maintain humanitarian and medical treatment centers and hospitals. Current developing projects in North America, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Belize, Puerto Rico, Isle of Man, Hawaii, Israel, and Nepal. Our missions are primarily medical and promote the interests of health, safety and welfare.
The Sovereign Medical Order of the Knights Hospitaller formally legislated into Ecuadorian Law in 2007 as an ecclesiastical order for the benefit of the poor and needy. The Order has obtained property in Santa Domingo, Ecuador for the construction of its Hospital.
Contact information:
Grand Dame Sherry Lund, 602-363-6615
Dame Terri Mansfield, Executive Director, AZ Department of Peace Campaign http://www.azdopcampaign.org/ 602-885-9058
Dame Rebecca Hardcastle, Ph.D., Exoconsciousness educator, author http://www.exoconsciousness.com/ 602-615-1485
Dame Lynne D. Kitei, M.D., Executive Producer, author, The Phoenix Lights Project http://www.thephoenixlights.net/ 602-943-HELP (4357)
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