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 | | In the latter a marked distinction id made between secular knights, externs to the order, who served only for a time, and the professed knights, attached to the order by a perpetual vow, and who alone enjoyed the same spiritual privileges as the other religious. |
 | | Both were charged with the military defense of the Holy Land, and the most redoubtable strongholds of the country, the splendid ruins of which still exist, were occupied by on or the other (Rey, "Monument de l'architecture militaire des Croises", Paris, 1865). |
 | | They equipped fleets to fight the Moslems on the sea and to protect the pilgrims, who had not ceased to visit the Holy Places. |
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