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Abstract: The article deals with the Order of the Christian Knights which was established by Michael of Althan, Karel Gonzaga-Nevers and Giovanni Battista Petrignani in Olomouc in the late 1618 under an ideological support of the leading members of the Capuchin Order, e.g. Valerián Magni or Joseph de Tremblay. Establishment of the order, however, did not mean its lasting existence. In the first decade of the Thirty Year War it lost one of its fundamental characteristics, e.e. an effort to unify the West and East European Christianity in its struggle against Islam, mainly the Turks, and ceased to exist as a result. |
