upon admission into the order of st. john, confrères are gifted various insignia of the organization, each level and office being represented by different emblems and robes for wear at important occasions for the order. common for all members except esquires is the badge, consisting of an eight-pointed maltese cross embellished in the four principal angles alternately with two lions passant guardant and two unicorns passant. that for the sovereign head is gold with arms of white enamel and the embellishments rendered in gold, all surmounted by a jeweled st. edward's crown, while those for the officers of the order are the same save for the grand prior's having the crown made only of gold; the lord prior's having in place of the st. edward's crown the coronet in gold of albert edward, prince of wales; and the prelate's having instead a representation of a mitre in gold. thereafter, the badges are prescribed as follows: