Marcello Alberto Cristofani della Magione (Casole d'Elsa, Siena - January 8, 1940), is an Italian noble and count. Biography Count Marcello Alberto Cristofani della Magione is the founder and current Grand Master of the Militia Templi. He has founded this lay order of the Roman Catholic Church into the Castello della Magione, near the village of Poggibonsi Italy. This Order is an institution also promoted and sponsored by the Metropolitan Archbishop of Siena Mario Jsmaele Castellano, by the successor Gaetano Bonicelli and by the cardinals Silvio Oddi, Edouard Gagnon and Alfons Maria Stickler.