He is Chief Executive Officer of an international management consultancy group with offices and representations in Europe and the Middle East. He is the only Maltese Liveryman and Marketor in the City of London to be so recognised. Max was granted the Freedom of the Company of the Worshipful Company of Marketors in the City of London and, in June 2005, granted the Freedom of the City as well. He also sits on the Research Board of Directors of the American Biographical Institute and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He was elected to the highest grade of Companion of the UK Institute of Sales and Marketing Management after being a Fellow of the Institute for more than eleven years. Max was also a Fellow and active member of numerous professional institutions, including the Institute of Commercial Management (UK), the International Biographical Association (Cambridge), the Institute of Personnel Development (UK), the Marketing Society (UK), the Malta Institute of Management and the Malta Marketing Institute. After entering the University of Malta, he furthered his studies outside the island and specialised in marketing and business administration.Īn avid bookworm and researcher, Max had a number of his works and writings published in the UK and the US and he has had published numerous articles in newspapers, specialised publications and journals. He studied at De La Salle College and at the Liceo Vassalli Junior Lyceum, continuing his post secondary education at the Gian Frangisk Abela New Lyceum. Max Joseph Ellul was born in Attard, Malta, in December 1970. The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts. With a forward by best-selling author Tim Wallace Murphy, The Sword and the Green Cross is a must read for all history buffs and those intoĬhapter 2: The History, Character and Spirit of the Order.Ĭhapter 6: From the Holy Land to the French Revolution.Ĭhapter 7: The Order in Europe and the Americas.Ĭhapter 9: The Lazarite twenty-first century. Sifts through the interpolated myths of such a revival and its magnetic allure to thousands worldwide. It also minutely dissects the modern day revivals of Lazarite organisations worldwide and, by means of hitherto unpublished documentation, The Sword and the Green Cross colourfully projects the period in which the Order flourished and illustrates prominent Lazarites from throughout theĬenturies. The immediate and long term ramifications of the French Revolution and the Orders demise. The book analyses its complete change from a Papal Order to a Monarchical Order under the benign overseeing of the French Kings and dwells at length on Justified its lengthy operations on the Continent even though the Holy Land was lost to the Crusades. The book explores the Orders birth in the Outremer, itsĮxpansion and Papal sponsorship, its constant interaction with the Templars and the Hospitallers and its tremendous growth in Europe which later Military exploits, survival instinct and a legacy which has permeated throughout time. Of the monastic and military Orders of the period: the Knights of Saint Lazarus.ĭevoid of the chequered popularity of their contemporary Knights Templar or the Knights of Saint John, the Knights of Saint Lazarus, with their greenĬross and invariable care of lepers and other afflicted pilgrims, nobles, knights and peasantry, offer the reader a fascinating history of diplomacy, The Sword and the Green Cross offers a minutely researched analysis of the creation of one Tumultuous events surrounding the First Crusade and the ensuing centuries of struggle for the conquest of the Holy Land has reverberated throughout theĬenturies and affected our collective psyche to this date.
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