ospital knights of Midsummer's Day, one of the Holy Land commands, created in XIe century, to look after the pilgrims. They will become Chevalier about Malta thereafter. Command of Malta (military and hospital sovereign command), religious command and soldier whose seat is today in Rome but whose function became purely charitable.
The origin about Malta goes up with creation, into 1099 and 1113, of a command military and religious for the defense of the Holy Land pilgrims, and called Hospitaliers of Saint-Jean-de-Jérusalem then.
After the catch of Saint-Jean-in Acre, the hospital ones settled in Cyprus (1291), then in Rhodos (1308) and Malta. The command settled in Rome in 1834.
Dice the XII century the Knight founded a commandery in Marseilles, this part of the city to keep the name of Jean Saint.