Camillus, de Lellis, Saint, 1550-1614
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1550 May 25 - 1614 July 14
Biographical note
A native of the Abruzzi in central Italy, who after some years of soldiering, tried to join the Capuchins, but had to leave them on account of a disease of the feet, which proved incurable. Ultimately he found his vocation in the service of the sick, for whom he founded the nursing congregation of the Ministers of the Sick, approved in 1591. Canonized in 1746, and declared by Leo XIII patron saint of the sick and of their nurses.
(paraphrased from The Book of Saints : A Dictionary of Persons Canonized or Beatified by the Catholic Church. 5th edition. New York: Crowell, 1966.)
Alternate names
Camillo
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Multiple saints, 1959, 1969, undated, bulk: 1926–1968
File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents
Includes Saints Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Amabilis, Andrew the Apostle, Anne, Anterus, Anthony of Padua, Aurelius and Timothy, Bartholomew the Apostle, Bernadette Soubirous, Camillus de Lellis, Clare of Assisi, Colette, Emilie, Felix I, Gabriel, Gerard Majella, Gordianus, Ignatius of Loyola, SJ, Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney, Jeanne de Lestonnac, Jesus, John, John Berchmans, SJ, Julius, Linus, Margaret Mary Alacoque, Mary, Nicholas, Paul the Apostle, Peter, Philip the Apostle, Pius X,...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1959, 1969, undated; Majority of material found within 1926–1968
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