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The Grand Master at the funeral of Otto von Habsburg

Rome, 18/07/2011 GRAND MASTER

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Over a thousand people participated in the funeral service ociated by Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, Archbishop of Vienna, in St. Stephen’s Cathedral in the heart of the Austrian capital. Also present, together with the heads of state and government of numerous European countries, was the Grand Master of the Order of Malta, Fra’ Matthew Festing, who led a procession of some two hundred Austrian knights and dames of the Order.

After the funeral, the mortal remains of Otto von Habsburg left St. Stephen’s between a corridor of people to be taken to the of the Capuccini, where 145 members of the Habsburg dynasty have been interred since 1633.

The Order of Malta’s Austrian hospital service – with 70 paramedics, ve doctors and 16 ambulances – provided medical assistance in the cathedral and during the funeral procession through the streets of Vienna.

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