Camillus de Lellis
Italian priest, nurse and saint · Italy · Religious Figures · Lived 1550 to 1614 · aged 64
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Something wrong?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.
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'Madonna and Child' with Saints Augustine and Camillus - West entrance - Metropolitan Cathedral of Mexico City - Mexico 2024
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030 Església dels Pares Camils, c. Sant Pere Més Baix 33 (Barcelona), retaule de Sant Camil
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Beuvry-la-Forêt (Nord, Fr) église, statue St.Camille de lellis
Bridge over Gombás-brook. Saint Camillus de Lellis. - Vác
Broadsheet with Saint Camilo de Lelis in bed surrounded by demons, priests and the Holy Trinity above MET DP869180About this person
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.
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