Category:Sons of Malta

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<nowiki>Sons of Malta; Mid 19th-century confraternity</nowiki>
Sons of Malta 
Mid 19th-century confraternity
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Location
  • United States of America
Inception
  • 1856
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English: The Independent Order of the Sons of Malta was a fraternal order active in the mid-nineteenth century. Its initiation rites parodied more staid fraternal orders such as the Freemasons. Despite the name, there was no particular connection to the Maltese diaspora in the United States.