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Ninth Centenary
CELEBRATIONS FOR
THEORDER’S NINTH CENTENARY
FESTIVITIES IN VIA CONDOTTI
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The Via Condotti Association devoted the entire month of June to the Order’s ninth centenary, adorning the famous Roman street with standards bearing the Order’s emblems and floreal decorations along the Spanish Steps and Square. Numerous shops joined in the initiative, placing the photograph of H.M.E.H. the Prince and Grand Master, the Order’s flag and a commemorative plaque in their windows.
The festivities organised by the Association were opened on 1st June with a short religious ceremony officiated by the Cardinalis Patronus, His Eminence Pio Laghi, in the Church of the SS. Trinità on the Pincio Hill, attended by H.M.E.H. the Prince and Grand Master, members of the Sovereign Council, the Prelate, Msgr. Mons. Donato de Bonis, and the President of the Via Condotti Association, Gianni Battistoni, with the councillors. At the end of the ceremonies, President Battistoni offered, on behalf of the Association, a reception in honour of the Grand Master in the historic Caffè Greco.
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| Rome. Via Condotti. The President of the Via Condotti Association offers his good wishes to H.M.E.H. the Prince and Grand Master in the Sala del Ninfeo of the Caffè Greco. |