Order of St. Jerome
The Order of St. Jerome was founded on September 30, 1450, the day of St. Jerome .
The founder was Elector Friedrich the Meek in Meissen . The order was to be “in honor and worthiness of St. Jerome, as a hard hammer and heavy expeller of the heretics”. It was a Saxon order of knights . Only a man with four generations of noble ancestors and a noble lifestyle could become a member. The donor installed an altar in the Meissen Chapel of the Three Kings . Here all religious should hold their mass and devotion for themselves and the order. Members in need could hope for help from the founder.
The medal was a necklace made of gold or silver, on which a cardinal's hat , the attribute of the patron of the order, hung.
The order was extinguished during the Reformation .
The Spanish Order of St. Jerome was a descendant of the Italian Order of St. Francis of Assisi .
Individual proof
- ^ William Stirling Maxwell, (translation from the English A. Kaiser), The monastery life of Emperor Charles the Fifth, TOWeigel, Leipzig 1853, p. 88
literature
- Gustav Adolph Ackermann: Order book of all in Europe flourishing and extinct orders and decorations. Rudolph and Dieterici, Annaberg 1855, p. 197