ANTILLEAN ORDER

ST. JOHN HOSPITALLERS

Most people think in terms of the “Crusades” having been conducted in the Holy Land of Jerusalem from the eleventh through the thirteenth centuries. However, the' Crusades of the Americas' actually continued throughout the sixteenth century starting in 1492, a Crusade led by Christopher Columbus who was at least related if not a Templar himself, a Knight of one of the religious, military Orders carried on what is now known as the Crusades of the Americas. This is an untold history, yet thoroughly documented in our books.

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Little has been published about the Hospitallers of St. John's colonization of the Americas occurring during a 16-year period when they possessed the five Caribbean islands of Saint Christopher, Saint Martin, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Croix, and Torguga (Haiti). The key figure in their contribution to colonization - Phillippe de Longvilliers de Poincy, was both a Knight of St. John and admiral, as well as the appointed governor of the French colonies in the Caribbean and St. Christopher (St. Kitts).