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Special measures at the Order’s care home in Madrid
Staff follow strict guidelines for coronavirus
Madrid, 24 March 2020

Medical staff of the San Juan Bautista residential home, Madrid
Medical staff at the 84-bed San Juan Bautista nursing home at Aldea del Fresno, on the outskirts of Madrid, follow all precaution to protect the elderly residents.The Order of Malta in Spain runs a range of projects in the country’s main cities, including care for the elderly, special equine and horticultural therapy for the disabled, summer camps for young people, and soup kitchens in Madrid, Barcelona and Seville (which up until this week have fed many hundreds of homeless and poor every day).
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The mission of the Order of Malta is inspired by its tradition of ‘Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum', to assist the poor and the sick, and bear witness to the Christian faith.

The Sovereign Order of Malta is a sovereign subject of international law. The Order - which is based in Rome, in via Condotti - has its own Government, an independent magistracy, and bilateral diplomatic relations with 110 countries.

The Order of St John of Jerusalem is one of the oldest institutions of Western and Christian civilisation. Present in Palestine in around 1048, it is a lay religious Order, traditionally of military, chivalrous, noble nature.