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SUMMARY:Vigils: St. Camillus de Lillus
DESCRIPTION:ST CAMILLUS DE LELLIS\nFrom Butler’s Lives of the Saints 4\n◊◊◊\nCamillus de Lellis was born in 1550 at Bucchianico…. When he was\nseventeen he went off with his father to fight with the Venetians against the\nTurks. But soon he contracted a painful and repulsive disease in his leg that\nwas to afflict him for the rest of his life. In 1571 he was admitted to the San\nGiacomo hospital for incurables at Rome\, as a patient and servant. After nine\nmonths he was dismissed\, for his quarrelsomeness among other things. He\nreturned to active service in the Turkish war. Though Camillus habitually\nreferred to himself as a great sinner\, his worst disorder was an addiction to\ngambling that continually reduced him to want and shame. In the autumn of\n1574 he gambled away his savings\, his arms\, everything down to his shirt\, which\nwas stripped off his back in the streets of Naples. \nThe indigence to which he had reduced himself\, and the memory of a vow\nhe had made in a fit of remorse to join the Franciscans\, caused him to accept\nwork as a laborer in the new Capuchin buildings at Manfredonia\, and there a\nmoving exhortation which the guardian of the friars gave him one day\,\ncompleted his conversion. He… fell on his knees\, and with tears deplored his\npast life\, and cried to Heaven for mercy. This happened on Candlemas day in\n1575\, the 25th of his age. From that time he never departed from his penitential\ncourse. He entered the novitiate of the Capuchins\, but could not make\nprofession because of the disease in his leg. He therefore returned to the\nhospital of San Giacomo and devoted himself to the service of the sick. The\nadministrators of the hospital witnessed his charity and later appointed him\nsuperintendent of the hospital. \nTo make himself more useful in spiritually assisting the sick\, he\nproceeded\, with the approval of his confessor\, St. Philip Neri\, to receive Holy\nOrders… With two companions he laid the foundations of his congregation.\nThey went every day to the hospital of the Holy Ghost\, where they served the\nsick with such affection and diligence that it was obvious to all who saw them\nthat they considered Christ Himself as lying sick or wounded in His members… \nCamillus was afflicted by many illnesses himself: the disease in his leg for\nforty-six years\, a rupture for thirty-eight years\, two sores in the sole of his foot\,\nwhich gave him great pain. Yet under these infirmities\, he would not allow\nanyone to wait on him\, but sent all his brethren to serve others. When he was\nnot able to stand\, he would creep out of his bed\, even at night\, and crawl from\none patient to another to see if they wanted anything. \nCamillus saw the foundation of fifteen houses of his brothers and eight\nhospitals… He expired on July 14\, 1614\, being sixty-four years old. St Camillus\nde Lellis was canonized in 1746\, and was\, with St. John of God\, declared patron\nof the sick by Pope Leo XIII\, and of nurses and nursing associations by Pope\nPius XI. \n4 Butler’s Lives of Saints\, vol. 3\, pg. 134\, P.J. Kennedy & Sons\, New York\, 1956.
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