Grand master of Knights of Malta to receive Path of Peace Award

Published: 2005-05-25

NEW YORK (CNS) -- Fra Andrew W.N. Bertie, grand master of the Knights of Malta, has been chosen to receive this year's Path to Peace Award. Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Vatican nuncio to the United Nations and president of the Path to Peace Foundation, said in a telephone interview May 23 that Bertie was chosen because of his leadership in promoting the extensive humanitarian work of the Knights. They have been active in areas such as Congo where their contribution of food and medicine aided the United Nations peacekeeping efforts, the nuncio said. Born in London in 1929, Bertie was elected grand master of the Sovereign Military Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta in 1988.

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