"Justice Scalia spent his last hours with members of this secretive society of elite hunters"

[Peter Lemkin]

"When Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died 11 days ago at a West Texas ranch, he was among high-ranking members of an exclusive fraternity for hunters called the International Order of St. Hubertus, an Austrian society that dates back to the 1600s."

"Members of the worldwide, male-only society wear dark-green robes emblazoned with a large cross and the motto "Deum Diligite Animalia Diligentes," which means "Honoring God by honoring His creatures," according to the group's website. Some hold titles, such as Grand Master, Prior and Knight Grand Officer. The Order's name is in honor of Hubert, the patron saint of hunters and fishermen."

"The International Order of St. Hubertus, according to its website, is a "true knightly order in the historical tradition." In 1695, Count Franz Anton von Sporck founded the society in Bohemia, which is in modern-day Czech Republic.

The group's Grand Master is "His Imperial Highness Istvan von Habsburg-Lothringen, Archduke of Austria," according to the Order's website. The next gathering for "Ordensbrothers" and guests is an "investiture" March 10 in Charleston, S.C.

The society's U.S. chapter launched in 1966 at the famous Bohemian Club in San Francisco, which is associated with the all-male Bohemian Grove one of the most well-known secret societies in the country."

"Sheriff Danny Dominguez confirmed that a photograph of Washington lawyer C. Allen Foster is the same man he interviewed at the ranch the day of Scalia's death.

From Houston, Scalia and Foster chartered a plane without the marshals to the Cibolo Creek Ranch airstrip. In a statement after Scalia died, the U.S. Marshals Service said that Scalia had declined a security detail while at the ranch.

The friend, Louisiana-born Foster, is a lawyer with the Washington firm Whiteford, Taylor & Preston. He is also known for his passion for hunting and is a former spokesman for the hunting group Safari Club.

In 2006, Foster was featured in The Post when he celebrated his 65th birthday with a six-day celebration in the Czech Republic. He flew his family and 40 Washington friends there to stay in Moravia's Zidlochovice, a baroque castle and hunting park. The birthday bash included "tours of the Czech countryside, wine tasting, wild boar and mouflon (wild sheep) hunts, classic dance instruction and a masked costume ball.""

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The "hunting group Safari Club"? The International Order of St. Hubertus? Bohemian Grove? Bohemia?

Your comments would be appreciated.

Kind of weird stuff and 'pals' the old inJustice was into, eh?!
Here is the website of the Castle in the Czech Republic. I can see it is not private, but owned by a state agency, basically the Czech Forestry/Hunting Agency. It does have large grounds and hunting is allowed and encouraged nearby. Places like this in Czech Republic can be rented for a private party by the day, week, or month. http://www.lesycr.cz/lz4/zamek-zidlochov...fault.aspx

http://www.lesycr.cz/lz4/myslivost-spark...%2fTrofeje

The International Order of St. Hubertus was founded in 1695 by Count Franz Anton von Sporck in what was then called the Kingdom of Bohemia, part of the Hapsburg Empire; later Czechoslovakia and now the Czech Republic. I think that is why all the associations with things 'Bohemia and Bohemian'. The area from Prague to the mountains that ring it has for many hundreds of years been called Bohemia or the Bohemian Lands. The Czech Republic has three sub-units: Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia divided into 14 'counties' or regions.

The lands of the Bohemian Crown, often called Czech lands in modern times, were a state in central Europe during the medieval and early modern periods connected by feudal relations under the joint rule of the Bohemian kings. The lands primarily consisted of Kingdom of Bohemia, Margraviate of Moravia and Duchies of Silesia, as well as other territories throughout its history.
The Crown of Bohemia was legally established on April 7, 1348 by King Charles IV on the foundation of the original Czech lands ruled by the Přemyslid dynasty. The interconnection of Czech lands thus no more belonged to a king or a dynasty but to the Czech monarchy itself, symbolically personalized by the Crown of Saint Wenceslas to which they "belonged". Later they passed to be the estates of the Holy Roman Empire until 1806, when they became an estate of the Austrian Empire; and became part of Czechoslovakia in 1918.
The Bohemian Crown was neither a personal union nor a federation of equal members. Rather, the Kingdom of Bohemia had a higher status than the other incorporated constituent countries within the Holy Roman Empire. There were only some common state institutions of the Bohemian Crown and they didn't survive the centralization of the Habsburg monarchy in the 18th century. The most important of them was the Bohemian Court Chancellery which was united with the Austrian Chancellery in 1749.