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 Grand Uniform of the Order
Prior to 1977 Click image to enlarge |  Grand Uniform of the Order
1977 to Present Click image to enlarge | The vesture of the Order also includes a uniform that is not seen much today but that still makes up a part of the Order’s official vesture. It is no longer obligatory but is nevertheless utilized by many jurisdictions of the Order worldwide. The uniform is of white broadcloth, cut in the Napoleonic style of the nineteenth-century diplomatic habit, similar to those of the orders of the Holy See. The collars, cuffs, and facings are in rich black velvet, with embroideries and epaulets in thinly woven gold thread. The epaulets have the Jerusalem cross insignia worked into them, as do the buttons. The black velvet facings, or breast front, are embroidered more richly for the higher degree or rank of the members. The motif is of gold intertwined palm leaves, reminiscent of the palm used at Palm Sunday and Christ’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem. That same motif is worked onto the white broadcloth on the borders of the tailcoat, on the lower back region, and on the black-velvet cuff. The trousers are white, with gold military stripes on the outside. The uniform is completed by a sword, engraved with the Jerusalem cross in red enamel and gold, and the chapeau. The chapeau used with the uniform is the same as that of the papal orders in design; a black-velvet eighteenth-century naval ceremonial hat with white plumes and the red Jerusalem cross.
Sir James-Charles Noonan Jr., KCHS. The Church Visible. New York, NY: Viking Penguin, 1996, p. 166.
Ibid. p. 137, portrait courtesy of H.E. Sir Rocco & Lady Barbara Martino of the Eastern Lieutenancy
Current Uniform Portrait: Courtesy of Barbiconi Rome, Italy |
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Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem - North Central Lieutenancy of the United States