# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/camillus-de-lellis
# Generated: 2026-08-31T19:36:29.851Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/camillus-de-lellis"
name: "Camillus de Lellis"
slug: "camillus-de-lellis"
description: "The patron saint of hospitals and nurses was a soldier and compulsive gambler before an infected leg forced him into a ward — where he saw how patients were treated and decided to invent modern nursing."
tagline: "Italian priest, nurse and saint"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lellis2.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IT"
category:
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  slug: "religious-figures"
profileType:
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  slug: "religious-figure"
birthDate: "1550-05-25"
deathDate: "1614-07-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.1854789505796217
  historical:           22.63382533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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  - name: "Early Modern Era"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born 25 May 1550, Camillus de Lellis spent his youth as a soldier and gambler before a chronic leg wound landed him in a Roman hospital. What he witnessed — neglect, cruelty, indifference — turned him. He became a Catholic priest and in response founded the Camillians, a religious order devoted entirely to care of the sick. Pope Benedict XIV beatified him in 1742 and canonized him four years later in 1746. He died 14 July 1614, and is now invoked as patron of the sick, hospitals, nurses, physicians — and against the gambling that once consumed him.