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January 15. Lateran. Pope Alexander IV writes to the master and brothers of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, relating that they have to go to great expense for the defense of the Holy Land and do not have sufficient funds from their own house, so he agrees to their request by conferring on them the monastery of St Lazarus de Bethania of the Order of St Benedict in the diocese of Jerusalem – which was almost destroyed by the pagan persecution of the enemies of the Christian name who are said to occupy it – along with all its possessions, rights, liberties, immunities, and appurtenances, in such a way that the addressees provide the abbess and nuns of the monastery who are now there with all their necessities as long as they live, and after their death or departure they are to substitute as many religious women of the addressee's order as are known to be at present of the other religion in that monastery, and to arrange that they remain there perpetually under the correction and governance of the rule of the Hospital, the rights of the patriarch of Jerusalem, the diocesan of the place, and of other pontiffs in whose dioceses the goods of the monastery exist.