Classes of the Members

The members of the Order are divided into three Classes:

1) The First Class consists of Knights of Justice, also called Professed, and of Professed Conventual Chaplains who have made religious vows;

2) The Second Class consists of members in Obedience and who are subdivided into three categories:

a) Knights and Dames of Honour and Devotion in Obedience

b) Knights and Dames of Grace and Devotion in Obedience

c) Magistral Knights and Dames in Obedience;

3) The Third Class consists of those members who do not make religious vows or the Promise but who live according to the norms of the Church and are p re p a red to commit themselves to the Order and the Church.

They are divided into six categories:

a) Knights and Dames of Honour and Devotion

b) Conventual Chaplains ad honore m

c) Knights and Dames of Grace and Devotion

d) Magistral Chaplains

e) Knights and Dames of Magistral Grace

f) Donats (male and female) of Devotion.