Pilgrimage with 300 pilgrims, Mass with Archbishop Heiner Koch in St. Peter’s Basilica, knighting by Karl von Habsburg in San Sebastiano European shooters cheer enthusiastically for Pope Leo. Rome. The largest pilgrimage of shooters in the Holy Year was described […]
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Balve, 22/08/2025 – At the plenary assembly of the EGS in Balve, Wolfram Schmitz was unanimously elected by the delegates to the new office of Deputy Secretary General of the EGS. The members of the Knighthood of St Sebastian in
Dear European shooting community, Dear guests and guests of honour, Today, 23 August, gives us cause for celebration for at least two reasons. The first reason is obvious: with this ceremony and over the course of these days, we are
The new EGS website went live as planned in our anniversary year, just in time for the celebrations in Balve. At the spring conference in Arnsberg (2024), Stefanie Perle had already presented her idea and goal for the website design:
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At their spring meeting in Udenhout, Netherlands, the EGS Plenary Assembly and the Plenary of the Knighthood decided that only applications for awards and requests for admission to the Knighthood can be accepted if they meet the formal requirements. Please
Change at the top of the EGS and the Knighthood of St. Sebastian in EuropeDuring the solemn investiture mass in the Mondsee Basilica and the subsequent flag parade, the office of President of the EGS and Prior of the Knighthood
The topic of the EGS website was also on the agenda at the spring conference in Arnsberg. In November 2023, Secretary General Peter-Olaf Hoffmann put together a working group (AK) dedicated to this topic. Stefanie Perle, who has already successfully
Dormagen is playing a decisive role in saving traditional shooting competitions with lead ammunition. There, the course has been set for everything to remain as it is. Source: rp-online, article dated 23 December 2023 https://rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/dormagen/europa-schuetzen-weiterhin-bleimunition-beim-schiesswettbewerbe_aid-103786267
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