The Military Order of St Thomas of Acre

“Like a faithful daughter she cherishes and nourishes in herself the remnants of Holy Jerusalem, her mother”: Acre as a Center for Church Practices in the 12th and 13th Centuries

“…In fact, not only the royal court, but also the patriarch of Jerusalem and many religious communities forced to leave the Holy City were located in the new capital. The bishops who had lost their cathedrals in Bethlehem, Tiberias, or Hebron also found shelter here (Jacoby, 2005;Pringle, 2009;Rubin, 2018b;France, 2018;Boas & Melloni, 2018;Forey, 1977;Lotan, 2019). In the 1210s, the first houses of burgeoning mendicant orders were built in Outremer (Graboïs, 1983;Rubin, 2018b).…”

Les rencontres entre communautés dans l’Acre latine du xiiie siècle : l’exemple de Saliba, marchand et bourgeois

“…Les églises absentes sont tout aussi intéressantes : Saliba ne lègue rien aux Templiers, aux Teutoniques ou à l'ordre religieux-militaire de SaintThomas 41 , rien non plus à Saint-Marc, l'église des Vénitiens, ou Saint-Pierre, celle des Pisans. De toute évidence, la dévotion est exclusive : fidèle des Hospitaliers et de SaintLaurent, Saliba ne peut porter son argent dans des églises qui appartiennent à des groupes rivaux.…”

Colonization and the creation of hospitals: The eastern extension of western hospitality in the eleventh and twelfth centuries

“…26 The hospital of St Martin, founded by the Archbishop of Tyre in 1254, offered hospitality to Bretons, and the military order of St Thomas of the English, which had adopted the rule of the Teutonic Order, originally had charitable functions. 27 In Jerusalem, the chapter of the Holy Sepulchre sold houses to the wife of one of the Hungarians, who then converted them into a hospice for her fellow countrymen. 28 Some of the Middle Eastern ethnic groups had their own hospitals under the Frankish occupation; there was an Armenian hospice at Acre and a hospital for Jews, Armenians, Greeks and some Latins at Laodicea.…”