Order of Malta International

Suverenusis Maltos ordinas (Suverenusis karinis hospitaljerų šv. Jono ordinas), Šv. Jono Jeruzaliečio Ordino Riteriai – Romos katalikų vienuolių ordinas, tarptautinės teisės subjektas.

Būstinė – Romoje (it. Via dei Condotti 68 ir Piazza dei Cavalieri di Malta 4), jai pripažįstamas eksteritorialumas.

Ordine – apie 12 000 narių.

Istorija glaudžiai susijusi su Maltos istorija. 1530 m. Malta buvo padovanota Riterių ordinui.

Kas padovanojo?

In 1530 Emperor Charles V gave the islands to the Knights Hospitaller under the leadership of Frenchman Philippe de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Grand Master of the Order, in perpetual lease for which they had to pay the Tribute of the Maltese Falcon. These knights, a military religious order now known as the Knights of Malta, had been driven out of Rhodes by the Ottoman Empire in 1522.

 In 1947, after the post-World War II peace treaty forbade Italy to own or operate bomber aircraft and only operate a limited number of transport aircraft, the Italian Air Force opted to transfer some of its SM.82 aircraft to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, pending the definition of their exact status (the SM.82 were properly long range transport aircraft that could be adapted for bombing missions). These aircraft were operated by Italian Air Force personnel temporarily flying for the Order, carried the Order's roundels on the fuselage and Italian ones on the wings, and were used mainly for standard Italian Air Force training and transport missions but also for some humanitarian tasks proper of the Order of Malta (like the transport of sick pilgrims to the Lourdes sanctuary). In the early '50s, when the strictures of the peace treaty had been much relaxed by the Allied authorities, the aircraft returned under full control of the Italian Air Force. One of the aircraft transferred to the Order of Malta, still with the Order's fuselage roundels, is preserved in the Italian Air Force Museum.

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