opposition from the majority of clergy, the monastic world, and the laity. Pope Paschal II issued the bull Pie postulatio voluntatis on 15 February 1113. It brought under Papal protection and confirmed as a religious order the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem, later known as the Knights Hospitaller and today known as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. It also confirmed the order's acquisitions and donations in Europe and Asia and exempted it from all authority save that of the pope. See also First Council of the Lateran Concordat of Worms Cardinals created by Paschal II Notes 11th-century births 1118 deaths Benedictine popes Christians of the Crusade of 1101 Christians of the 1113–1115 Balearic Islands expedition Cluniac Order Italian Benedictines Italian popes People from the Province of Forlì-Cesena Popes 11th-century popes 12th-century popes Cardinals created by Pope Gregory VII Burials at the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran