1- John Gunthorpe was the first person on record to have been called ‘King High almoner'.
2- For some years, he was an ordinary cloistered monk, but he became the almoner around 1435.
3- The "almoner of His Holiness," the pope 's official almoner, continues in office even after the pope dies.
4- The Royal Free Hospital hired Mary Stewart as the first almoner in 1895.
5- Margaret Jean Roxburgh, Head almoner , Middlesex Hospital.
6- After the war, military almoners where sent to occupation zones in Germany and Austria.
7- almoner - officer of a monastery entrusted with dispensing alms to the poor and sick.
8- Cardinal de Fleury, who had been Louis's tutor, was appointed her grand almoner .
9- In Europe, chaplains or almoners were appointed for administer the church's mission to the poor.
10- The chaplains, serving in the army, are named by one of these three military almoners .
11- The chaplains, confessors and almoners could serve in administrative capacities as well as the religious ones.
12- The Lord High almoner continued to perform the "pedilavium" at the Maundy ceremony until 1737.
13- The building takes the form of a courtyard surrounded by the chambers of the almoners and various offices.
14- When Henry VIII became King of England in 1509, Wolsey became the King's almoner .
15- He also served a lengthy term Lodge almoner and during 2007 and 2008 was Master of the Lodge.
16- His patron the Archbishop Aguiar y Seijas died and Sigüenza lost his lucrative post of Chief almoner .
17- The almoner was puzzled.
18- An almoner looked after the poor, an infirmarian looked after the sick and a hospitaller looked after visitors.
19- The ceremony was performed in the presence of the princes of the blood, almoners , bodyguards, and physicians.
20- Hammond Joseph Mitchell, almoner and Assistant Secretary of the Saint George's Society, New York.
21- In the 1950s, military almoners where sent in the French Union's territories, including Indochina and Algeria.
22- To this end, he sent a referendary and an almoner , both of them worthy men, to ascertain the truth.
23- In 1715, the king made him Lord almoner , which office was resigned in his favour by the archbishop of Canterbury.
24- Great almoner of the queen, he assisted in 1775 at the coronation of Louis XVI as a peer of the kingdom.
25- In November 1489, Sultan Bayezid II of the Ottoman empire sent the relics of John the almoner to King Matthias Corvinus.
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