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The '''Order of Elamite Hospitallers of the Seven Churches''' is a [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] religious order. | The '''Order of Elamite Hospitallers of the Seven Churches''' is a [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] religious order. | ||
The Order was originally formed to provide protection, accommodations, and spiritual care to [[Kiravian]] pilgrims visiting Christian holy sites in the [[Istroya|Istroyan Basin]]. Further to these functions, the Order began developing military capabilities and would emerge as a militarily potent chivalric order during the Crusades, due largely to their mastery of {{wp|amphibious warfare}} tactics. As the "{{wp|shock troops}} of Christendom", the Elamites saw action on numerous fronts throughout the Crusades, and in the process acquired territorial holdings in the [[Melian Isles]], [[Sydona]], and elsewhere which they governed as [[Crusader states]]. | The Order was originally formed to provide protection, accommodations, and spiritual care to [[Kiravian]] pilgrims visiting Christian holy sites in the [[Istroya|Istroyan Basin]]. Further to these functions, the Order began developing military capabilities and would emerge as a militarily potent chivalric order during [[the Crusades]], due largely to their mastery of {{wp|amphibious warfare}} tactics. As the "{{wp|shock troops}} of Christendom", the Elamites saw action on numerous fronts throughout the Crusades, and in the process acquired territorial holdings in the [[Melian Isles]], [[Sydona]], and elsewhere which they governed as [[Crusader states]]. | ||
Today the Order persists as a Catholic religious order and as a non-territorial federal subject of the Kiravian Federacy. | Today the Order persists as a Catholic religious order and as a non-territorial federal subject of the Kiravian Federacy. | ||
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==History== | ==History== | ||
===Origins=== | ===Origins=== | ||
The Order was founded in the lost cathedral town of Sodexorstrom, [[ | The Order was founded in the lost cathedral town of Sodexorstrom, [[Merav]] in 1062 AD. | ||
===First Crusade=== | ===First Crusade=== | ||
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===Fourth Crusade=== | ===Fourth Crusade=== | ||
From its Melian base, the Elamites continued to contribute to the Crusader | From its Melian base, the Elamites continued to contribute to the Crusader offensives in the Istroyan region and would extend their reach further south and west to the [[Iddrytine Despotate]] and Sydona Islands, ultimately establishing a permanent presence in the latter. | ||
===Post-Crusades=== | ===Post-Crusades=== | ||
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The Order was banned in the Kiravian Union and expelled from the Mainland and - more injuriously - Sydona. Its hierarchy rode out the [[Kiravian Sunderance|Sunderance]] from its historic strongholds in the Melian Islands. | The Order was banned in the Kiravian Union and expelled from the Mainland and - more injuriously - Sydona. Its hierarchy rode out the [[Kiravian Sunderance|Sunderance]] from its historic strongholds in the Melian Islands. | ||
==Armaments== | |||
==Naval Capabilities== | |||
==Organisation== | |||
==Non-Military Activities== | |||
===Elamite Health & Rehabilitation System=== | |||
The Elamite Order has operated hospitals and cared for the sick and injured since its creation. Today it operates a very large network of hospitals, rehabilitation centres, and other healthcare facilities across the Kiravian Federacy and Collectivity. Much of the modern network was put in place on the Kiravian Mainland after reunification, and was motivated in part due to the order's concerns about the growing influence of [[Methodism in Kiravia]] due to Methodist ecclesial communities' involvement in healthcare, sanatoria, and addiction recovery ministries, thus synergising with the Order's contemporary focus on Neo-Counter-Reformation. | |||
===Neo-Counter-Reformation and Countercult Movement=== | |||
Due to the repression of the major apostolic churches (Insular Apostolic, Coscivian Orthodox, but most of all, Catholic) during Kirosocialism, the post-communist rebound in religious practice on the Kiravian mainland has been much more diverse in terms of the religious traditions embraced than was the landscape that preceded it. While most returnees to religion in urban Great Kirav have reverted to the faiths of their ancestors, others have taken up the Coscivian-origin religions, [[Kiravian Sectarians|Sectarian creeds]], {{wp|new religious movements}}, historical Protestantism (mainly [[Methodism in Kiravia|Methodism]]), and post-denominational {{wp|neo-Protestantism}}. | |||
One of the Order's post-reunification priorities has been countering the spread of Protestantism, new religious movements, and schismatic and heretical sects in Kiravia and providing Catholic alternatives to humanitarian missions sponsored by Protestant churches and other non-Catholic bodies. It is a major participant in the {{wp|Christian countercult movement}}, even joining forces with the interdenominational [[Christian Motorcyclists Association]] and Protestant churches in this effort. | |||
[[Category:IXWB]] | [[Category:IXWB]] | ||
[[Category:KRV]] | [[Category:KRV]] | ||
[[Category:History]] | [[Category:History]] | ||