International Academic Meetings
Investigations into the history of the Order of St. Lazarus

​The International Meetings should serve as a forum to discuss and academically research controversial aspects related to the Order’s history. The participation of early career scholars and postgraduate research researchers is positively encouraged.

Interested individuals are requested to contact the organizing committee at s.lazari.ordinis.academia@gmail.com.​​
The First International  Conference of the International Academy was held in Malta in November 2014. The following papers were presented and published as proceedings:
  • ​The economical sustenance of the Order of St. Lazarus in the Kingdom of Jerusalem
  • The Pian Bulls of the Order of Saint Lazarus: History and Significance
  • The Order of St. Lazarus in the Battle of Lepanto, October 1571
  • L'École Royale Militaire and the Ordre de Notre-Dame du Mont-Carmel
  • The Suppression of the Order of St. Anthony of Vienne in 1775: The consequent interactions between the Order of the Hospital and the Order of St. Lazarus
  • Battling the Variola: Charles Marie de La Condamine Chevalier de L'Ordre de Saint Lazare
  • Three Centuries of Chivalric tradition and Lazarite presence in Louisiana
  • Torri ta' Lanzun: from Farmhouse to Grand Chancellery of the Military & Hospitaller Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem


The Second International Conference of the International Academy was held in Palermo, Sicily in June 2017. The event will be targeted to coincide with the International Pilgrimage of the Order dedicated to King Saint Louis IX in Monreale, Sicily. The following papers were presented:
  • A hospitali infirmorum s. Lazari de Jerusalem before the First Crusade
  • The earliest statutes of the Order of Saint Lazarus
  • The First Schism affecting the Order of Saint Lazarus
  • Of Papal Bulls and Political Intrigue: The Attempted Abolition of an Order
  • The history of the Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem in Central Europe (Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary)
  • The last 18th century statutes of the Order of Saint Lazarus and the legal succession
  • The Handbook of the Order of Saint Lazarus
  • The interconfessional nature of the Order of Saint Lazarus and its configuration as a lateral body of the international ecumenical Christian institutions.