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USARMY Award "Order of Saint Maurice"

By Frank Serenil

Vol. 2, 2024 - 2025

Order St Maurice 1

USARMY ‘Order Of Saint Maurice Award” Awarded to Sir Knight Captain Paul Jacob Cortez Army Ranger member of (Assy 2187 (Pasadena) & Council 15321- Houston) on December 7, 2017. Notables recipientes ‘Colin L. Powell - US Sec. Of State; LT. General Harold G. Moore (movie ‘We Were Soldiers’) based on a true combat mission in Vietnam (la Drang Valley) in 1965, to just name a few recipients. Captain Jacob Cortez also received the “Caritas Award” from Supreme Grand Knight Carl Anderson for his great deeds done during Hurricane Harvey. This is what “Knights Of Columbus Men in Action do. Doing what our Knights do best ‘Helping those In Need’.


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