The first mention of the Order of Saint Lazarus in surviving sources dates to 1142.
Saint Lazarus leaps from one wall; a Last Supper of chattering skeletons fills another.
Originally the complex was a monastery in the Order of Saint Lazarus.
It left many interesting monuments, among them the 9th century Basilica of Saint Lazarus.
Another church, built just outside the main settlement in the hamlet of Škrljevec, is dedicated to Saint Lazarus.
Saint Lazarus was the living symbol of rebirth, of the human spirit's stubborn refusal to stay down.
In France it was finally absorbed into the Order of Saint Lazarus in 1672.
It must not be confused with the Order of Saint Lazarus.
He is chaplain general and grand cross of Order of Saint Lazarus.
The first mention of a church dedicated to Saint Lazarus, called the Lazarium, is by Jerome in 390.