In accordance with its history and its origin, the Order of the Byzantine Knights of the Holy
Sepulchre sees itself as a Christian order of knights. The ideal of knighthood, in which European
tradition and Christian religion were combined to a higher unit has become the constitutive idea
of European intellectuality and has formed both our European moral concepts until today as well
as our attitude towards the world in general.
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In a world visibly losing its order, we more than ever need a recollection, and especially a renewal
of the occidental original ideals if we do not want to lose our identity. From that point of view,
the ideal of the knighthood as a concept is no memory of a dead past, but while reconnecting us to
our basic origins, it serves as a life-donating renaissance.
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