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The Institution of the Ancient and Noble Order of the Knights of St. John International is ascribed to some gallant merchants from the city of Amalfi in the Middle East who in the year 1048 AD founded a hospital in Jerusalem to take care of the pilgrims who visited the Holy Land.

The famous deeds of the medieval Knights nearly passed into oblivion as the years passed by. However, in 1886, some American Catholics of the City of New York met and decided that a living monument be built to commemorate the gallant Knights who had so gallantly defended the church in the medieval era. They decided to revive the Order by reforming the "Roman Catholic Union of St. John".

On May 6, 1886, the Ancient and Noble Order of the Knights of St. John was established in the United States by a special act of legislature. The Order of the Knights of St. John was introduced into the Gold Coast, now Ghana, in 1933. Meanwhile, in July 1992 the name was changed to the Knights of St. John International to reflect its Global Status.

Running concurrently with the Knights and ladies is the Cadets & Junior Auxilliaries. These are the nursery stages of the Order where young boys and girls, as future leaders are groomed to take over from the older Knights and Ladies.

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