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Rh beer, &c., and to cut down and bury the bodies of those who were executed on the gallows.

This Order, formerly spread throughout France and the rest of Europe, was reconstructed by Louis XVIII. on the 19th August, 1814, as a royal institution, and also in Poland. In the latter country, it expired at the Revolution of 1830, but it is still extant within a very small circle of Knights, elected by the Guardian from the most respectable pilgrims who come to Jerusalem.

The badge (No. 2) is worn round the neck, or at the buttonhole, by a blaek watered ribbon, while the star (No. 1) is only allowed to those Knights who have visited Jerusalem. The collar consists of small red enamelled crosses joined together by gold rings.

When, in 1847, a Latin Patriarch was once more established at Jerusalem, the Roman Propaganda transferred to him the right of conferring the Order of the Holy Sepulchre.