Path of the Knight

There are many values that this Order promotes: maintaining the Spanish historical legacy, respect for neighbors and family, justice, honor and loyalty. Also generosity, piety, valor, courage, protection of the weak or helpless. And one more, which I especially highlight: solidarity. It costs little.

I would like nothing more than for the Knights who enter this humble Order in the future to do so aware of what unites us and from moderation, simplicity, honesty and tolerance for differences, of any kind.

Let us be Custodian Knights, at all times and places.

By Myriam Garrido

Towards the construction of the Kingdom.

Every Order of Chivalry suggests courage, pursuit and ideals. It aims to contribute to satisfying the dreams of humanity. Human beings as sons and daughters of God long for something great. We imagine the creation of a world of harmony and that spirit moves us to integrate into a chivalric order. Arthur and the Round Table, the kingdom of Camelot. Jesus manifested, with his words and actions, what this new world consists of and the efforts we must be willing to make to achieve it.

In the last 2000 years of history, in the Christian era, the world has experienced great development. But God's desire that his will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven has not yet been fulfilled. Every Knight longs to collaborate in creating the Kingdom, a kingdom of freedom, equality and fraternity. Every Knight must ceaselessly search for the mystical Grail, which is to understand, live and serve from true love. The blessings of Genesis “Be fruitful, multiply and dominate the earth”, can only be understood through that prism. Every Knight prays to be imbued with true love and thus be able to bring harmony to human society.

The Knight considers the Order as a stepping stone to advance and become the son or daughter that God longs for since the beginning of time. You wait for momentum, offer your commitment, and see signs that we are entering a new era. The Knight is aware that his perseverance, his clarity and his breadth of spirit are essential to fulfill his mission. For his country, for the world and for God.



By Enrique Miguel Sánchez Motorcycles

I can say that it has been an honor to give me the opportunity to capture some words that come from the heart, and that written will remain forever, as a Spaniard and a Christian, and thinking from within my soul, as if someone from the highest would dictate. Words that will remain forever as in this important book of the order of Knight Custodians of Calatrava la Vieja.

We live in a time of continuous movement, which often leads to activism, with the easy risk of doing for the sake of doing, we have to resist this temptation by seeking sedatives of doing. We strive for many things, but nevertheless, only one is necessary, being before doing, it is not good to be without knowing where we come from, and without doing the little things with love. If we really want to return the world to its Christian roots, if we want to recover that Christianity that little by little is disappearing from our world, it is necessary that we consecrate our hearts to Christ our God and to Mary. Do and be knowing where we come from. May we move forward firmly in these times of difficulty, anxiety, and persecution and may it become a reality that more and more, and may many hearts be consecrated to Christ and Mary. It will be the sign that the restoration of Christian culture, the return of Christianity, is beginning. And ask our god for a heart of flesh, compared to a heart of stone. The culture of life is where we have a lot at stake. And that we must start from the base of our own family, from our jobs, from our friends and wherever we go through this life, in which we are passing through, and that from our way of living and working we have to carry out in this line.

I want to contribute to the Salvation of all our brothers, to save everyone from the slavery of not being oneself, to have the freedom to fight for those values that today have been left behind, that are not given importance, such as respect to your neighbor, to your family, justice, to fight for SPAIN, for your homeland, this great nation that has risen from all adversity, in which we have won all the battles, fought for the greatest thing, honor, which must be the main currency, and that it is not only having more and being more powerful, but giving importance to loyalty, courage, courage, generosity, protection of the downtrodden, discouraged or discouraged. And that can only be achieved with the help of GOD.

Good can advance, but for good to advance what is needed is a royal will, perhaps more than in other times, because when the sense of the good, of the true, has been lost, it is harder, more demanding. promote good, and on many occasions that also implies greater misunderstanding of the society in which we live, but we have to move forward and fight for good, because good is taking important steps.

That everything previously stated in summary, it will be an HONOR to belong to this order and be a CUSTODIAL KNIGHT, that being named Knight of the Order of Calatrava the Old is a way, a union that unifies all these criteria to be carried out in the field of battle, which is the world around us, all that work, that union and strength of all the men and women that make up this order, with faith and the help of Christ, we can build a better society, a society with values, of plenitude moral, with help to others to carry that cross that we all carry and make it less heavy.

Everything is for GOD, for our brothers, for the good of Spain and good Spaniards.

By José Galiano Moreno

What does an order of chivalry mean to you?

When I think about what an order of chivalry is or what I consider it to be, I inevitably think of three ideas: the Middle Ages, religious congregation and Islam. In the Middle Ages the orders of chivalry meant the union between chivalric ethics and the principles and values of the monk. Belonging to an order was considered a strong sacred bond. The knight's fidelity had to respond to religious norms and values. The vow of chastity, poverty and obedience, which governed the monastic orders, was initially applied to the military orders. Over time, the orders of chivalry were organized around a powerful lord, to protect and safeguard their interests. They had, therefore, a defensive and military function, especially Islam. (Paradoxically, this threat remains latent today, perhaps in a more subtle but no less dangerous way.) They also had a social character, with them they shared not only strictly military tasks, but courtly chores such as hunting, eating or leisure.

Why do I want to be part of an Order of Chivalry?

There are two references that have marked and serve as a guide to my life. On the spiritual level, the Catholic faith, I believe in God the Father Almighty, my creator and the creator of all things; On the civil and social level, the reference is the love for my Country, for its customs, values and traditions. Both references find an ideal fusion in the order of chivalry. Because belonging to the order allows me to defend and practice both ideals. It is the principles of the Catholic faith that guide my steps in the defense of my homeland, the responsibility of every good Spaniard. I should not and cannot passively observe how this society, barren in values, destroys our own identity, our traditions, our ideals and ultimately our beloved country for which so many Spaniards throughout history have given their lives. I think about the new generations, about my children, and I see myself in the duty of preserving and enlarging for them my beloved Spain, a homeland that today is bleeding into absurd separatism, crazy populism, and a rabid anticlericalism that, under an absolute moral relativism, disguises itself under the appearance of false tolerance the imposition of the most absurd and destructive principles. The order allows me, from the role I play in society, a mother in the private sphere and a teacher in the workplace, to defend and contribute to the aggrandizement of Spain and at the same time to be a living testimony of Christ on Earth.

By María Lourdes Marín García-Cervigón