St. Camillus Holy Card

St. Camillus Holy Card
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H x W:	4 3/8" (11.1 cm) x 2 5/8" (6.66 cm)

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This laminated holy card depicts St. Camillus kneeling on the front and has a prayer to the saint on the back. St. Camillus is the patron is of the sick.

Prayer For the Sick

O glorious Saint Camillus, special patron of the sick, thou who for forty years, with truly heroic charity, didst devote thyself to the relief of their temporal and spiritual necessities, be pleased to assist them now even more generously, since thou art blessed in heaven and they have been committed by Holy Church to thy powerful protection. Obtain for them from Almighty God the healing of all their maladies, or, at least, the spirit of Christian patience and resignation that may sanctify them and comfort them in the hour of their passing to eternity; at the same time obtain for us the precious grace of living and dying after thine example in the practice of divine love.

Amen.

Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be to the Father

St. Camillus

Feast Day:
Roman Rite Calendar - 07/14
Tridentine Calendar - 07/14

Patron Of: Hospital Workers, Hospitals, Nurses, Sick, Sickness

Profile
    Son of a military officer who had served both for Naples and France. His mother died when he was very young. Spent his youth as a soldier, fighting for the Venetians against the Turks, and then for Naples. Reported as a large individual, perhaps as tall as 6'6", and powerfully built, but suffered all his life from abscesses on his feet. A gambling addict, he lost so much he had to take a job working construction on a building belonging to the Capuchins; they converted him.

    He entered the Capuchin novitiate three times, but a nagging leg injury, received while fighting the Turks, each time forced him to give up. He went to Rome for medical treatment where Saint Philip Neri became his priest and confessor. He moved into San Giacomo Hospital for the incurable, and eventually became its administrator. Lacking education, he began to study with children when he was 32 years old. Priest. Founded the Congregation of the Servants of the Sick (the Camellians) who, naturally, care for the sick both in hospital and home. The order expanded with houses in several countries. Camillus honored the sick as living images of Christ, and hoped that the service he gave them did penance for his wayward youth. Reported to have the gifts of miraculous healing and prophecy.

Born
    1550 at Bocchiavico, Abruzzi, kingdom of Naples, Italy

Died
    14 July 1614 at Genoa, Italy

Beatified
    7 April 1742 by Pope Benedict XIV

Canonized
    1746 by Pope Benedict XIV

All information used with permission of the Patron Saint Index.

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