To celebrate its 25th anniversary, the Coordination Comitee of the Ile de France Region Confréries (Brotherhoods)) had big plans: a ceremony, a mass in Notre Dame Cathedral, which had been magnificently restored after the terrible fire that devastated it six years ago. Nearly 600 people from around 60 brotherhoods attended. Aware of the appeal of a ceremony in the renovated Notre Dame Cathedral, we published an article to draw our members’ attention to it. As a result, many participants belonged

Responding to an invitation from Grand Master Nikola CUCULJ, President Marc Lesk traveled to Vršac, in the Serbian Banat region of Vojvodina, eastern Serbia, accompanied by Vice President Janesz Dezman. In Serbia, the 47th congress of FICB was held in 2012. The Saint-Théodore brotherhood, named after the hero of the fight against the Ottoman occupiers in the 16th century, held a chapter to mark its 20th anniversary, in the presence of several brotherhoods from Serbia, Romania and Hungary, in the

The World is a cruise ship, co-owned by people of different nationalities who sail the world. Many of them are passionate about traditions and wines, and the on-board cellar has 15,000 bottles from all over the world. For over 20 years, a “Priory” of the Illustrious Order of the Knights of Medusa, that is to say, an autonomous delegation, has been present there. Alan, the Grand Prior, ably supported by Marinella, the sommelier, Jeffrey, the chef, and Sai, the catering