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Medals, honors, and other ceremonial decorations from the Order are officially open to all citizens; however, they are currently only awarded to members of the House of Nobility, making it a de facto noble order.
Gallery
Ceremonial clothes for Knights of the Order, dating c. early 1900s:
Notes
^Also known and recorded as the Johanniter Orden, (Order of) St John in Sweden, St. John's in Sweden and St. John of Sweden, among other minor variants. The epithet of "Saint" may be absent entirely in more zealous Protestant publications. (See Lutheran theology.)