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 De Rohan Craft Lodge holds its annual Installation Meeting on the Wednesday before the first Saturday in October. It also meets on the Wednesday before the first Saturday in May and thus two of its five meetings each year fall within Malta Masonic Week.

The Lodge is named after the penultimate Grand Master of the Order of St John to reign in Malta, Fra Emmanuel De Rohan Polduc. Although not fully proven, it is believed that De Rohan was as Freemason. He certainly strove mightily to protect those of his senior knights who were Masons and were being investigated by the Inquisition. The Lodge banner, depicted above, includes De Rohan's coat of arms between the two great pillars.

 

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Grand Master, Order of St John
1775-1797