SAINT CAMILLUS DE LELLIS from Italy was the Founder of the Order of the Clerks Regular Ministers to the Sick known as Camillians. The red cross on their cassock remains a symbol of the order today. It is said that Camillus possessed the gifts of healing and prophecy. The Congregation of the Servants of the Sick of St Camillus, the Daughters of St. Camillus, the Secukar Institutes of Missionaries of the Sick Christ Our Hope were born of the charism and spirituality of St. Camillus.
He is the patron saint of the sick; hospitals ;nurses.