User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 04-06-'12 — E3 hub/@comment-77.45.54.119-20120620101634/@comment-1153722-20120620103244

Neither was Savonarola. And the Order never fell, it was spread across the entire known World; Europe, Africa, Asia, and since the early 16th century, the Americas. They were simply mostly routed from Italy in 1503-1507, but they were still operating everywhere.