Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke, Patron of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta {hospitaller – charitable religious order}.  Raymond Leo Burke was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, on June 30, 1948.  He attended high school at Holy Cross Seminary in La Crosse, Wisconsin before attending the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC as a Basselin Scholar. {A scholarship program established by Theodore Basselin 1851-1914,  a lumber magnate who created at the Theological College at Catholic University of America for Philosophical Education}. He undertook his studies in preparation for ordination of the holy priesthood at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Roma and was ordained to the priesthood by Pope Paul VI on June 29, 1975.  Ordained a bishop in 1995 by Pope St John Paul II he served for almost nine years as bishop of La Crosse where he founded the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe.  On December 2, 2003 Bishop Burke was named archbishop of St. Louis.  From 2008-2014 he served as prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura in Rome {Highest judicial authority in the Catholic Church except for the Pope}.  He was elevated to the College of Cardinals in 2010 by Pope Benedict XVI  In November 2014 he was named Patron of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta.  Cardinal Burke serves as a judge on the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura and is currently a member of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints and of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts.  He has also served on the Congregation for Bishops, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, and the Council of Cardinals and Bishops of the Section for Relations with States of the Secretariat of State.