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Its 13,500 members include Professed Friars and others who have made the promise of obedience. The other Knights and Dames are lay members, devoted to the exercise of Christian virtue and charity. What distinguishes the Knights and Dames of the Order of Malta is their commitment to reaching their spiritual perfection within the Church and to expending their energies serving the poor and the sick.</p> 562<p>The Order of Malta remains true to its inspiring principles, summarized in the motto âTuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperumâ, nurturing, witnessing and protecting the Faith and assistance to the poor and the suffering, which become reality through the voluntary work carried out by Dames and Knights in humanitarian assistance and medical and social activities. 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916 917 918 <div id="tt" role="tooltip" class=" animated"></div> 919</body> 920</html> 921
Line numbers count LF bytes from the start of the resource, as the search results do. Vendor segments are library code the classifier recognised; they are stored but not indexed. Bytes are shown as Latin1 characters, one per byte.