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- Motivated by his work in the hospital, Father Camillus assembled a group of Catholic religious and lay followers to help tend to the needs of suffering patients, calling his group the "Servants of the Sick." The Servants would be summoned to hospitals, and to prisons and private houses, to tend to the needs of the sick and dying.
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The members of the Order professed the vows of chastity, poverty and obedience and consecrated their lives ‘to service to the sick poor, including the plague-ridden, in their corporeal and spiritual needs, even at risk to their own life, having to do this out of sincere love for God’.
The Camillians or Clerics Regular, Ministers to the Sick (Latin: Clerci Regulari Ministeri Infirmaribus) are a Catholic religious order founded in 1582 by St. Camillus de Lellis (1550-1614). A large red cross was chosen by the founder as the distinguishing badge for the members of the Order to wear upon their black cassocks , which was later ...
May 15, 2000 · Regular Servants of the Sick (Camillians) 1. The joy that accompanies the celebration of the Great Jubilee of the Incarnation has a special resonance for the Camillian family, which is preparing to celebrate the 450th anniversary of the birth of St Camillus de Lellis on 25 May 1550 in Bucchianico.
Apr 18, 2020 · Public domain. By Jonah McKeown. Denver, Colo., Apr 18, 2020 / 11:00 am. St. Camillus de Lellis turned from a life as a soldier and gambler to become a priest and the founder of an order...
- Jonah Mckeown
Camillus de Lellis, M.I., (25 May 1550 – 14 July 1614) was a Roman Catholic priest from Italy who founded the Camillians, a religious order dedicated to the care of the sick. He was beatified by Pope Benedict XIV in the year 1742, and canonized by him four years later in 1746.
May 21, 2024 · Saint Camillus of Lellis ; canonized 1746; feast day July 14) was the founder of the Ministers of the Sick. Along with St. John of God, Camillus became patron of the sick. The son of an impoverished nobleman, Camillo became a soldier of fortune and an inveterate gambler. In 1575 he was converted.
Popular name of the Order of St. Camillus (OSCam, Official Catholic Directory #0240), whose official title is the Order of the Servants of the Sick (Ordo Ministrantium Infirmis). The order was founded in Rome by St. camillus de lellis about 1582 and given final approval as an order with solemn vows in 1591.
