In Popular Culture
In the beginning of Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption, the protagonist Christof Romuald is a human crusader who fights as a member of the order (referred to in-game as the Swordbrethren) in an alternate history Europe populated by vampires and other monstrous forces.
It also appears prominently in The Mongoliad, where they appear as one of the main antagonists of the fictional order that to which the main characters belong.
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“Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.”
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