Since that morning of 2 February 1575 with the meeting with ‘Our Lady of Graces’ in the little Church of San Giovanni Rotondo, and the consequence a little time afterwards of opening himself to merciful God on the stony road

7 April is  an important day in the Camillian calendar.  In 1742 Pope Benedict XIV was the first Pope to bestow authoritativeness on, and praise, Camillus for founding  ‘new school of charity’ when writing the Bull for the beatification of

Father Silvio Marinelli, M.I. has sent from Guadalajara (Mexico) two pastoral publications for the World Day of the Sick. While thanking him strongly, we make the material (which is in Spanish) available to readers. El Padre Silvio Marinelli, M. I.

The public meeting that was held on Saturday afternoon on 25 April in Bucchianico, in the Sala dei Banderesi, on Germana Sommaruga a ‘lay Camillian teacher 1914-1995’ surprised those who had come for two reasons: they learnt about Germana Sommaruga

The relic of the heart of St. Camillus a few days ago returned from the Province of Piedmont to the Generalate House in Rome. During its stay in Turin, numerous and important initiatives followed one another. Amongst these, the meeting

Christine Sunderland, an American writer, will publish in May her fifth novel whose title is The Magdalene Mystery. For this reason she came to have a final look inside our Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Rome so as to

The proceedings of the General Chapters of the Order of the Ministers of the Sick are kept with care in the General Archives (at the Generalate House  in Piazza della Maddalena in Rome). Especial attention, however, was paid to those

The  II General Chapter opened in a troubled atmosphere and one full of tensions because of the unresolved ‘question of the hospitals’. Fr. P. Oppertis, the Provincial of Naples, continued his work as a mediator between the religious and the

By the Superna disposizione, a Bull signed by Clement VIII on 29 December 1600, the juridical structure of the Order was further decided upon and the period of tension between its members on how to understand service in hospitals came

Resigning the Position of Superior General In September 1907, Cardinal Ginnasi, the protector of the Order appointed by Pope Pail VI, convoked an assembly in Rome, in his presence, in order to study remedies for the increasing difficulties that obstructed

Br. Luca Perletti,  General Secretary I have been waiting for this General Chapter to meet old and new travelling companions with whom to generate an arena of new ideas and future scenarios  for the Order and for the Church. I

In a few days’ time the LVII General Chapter of the Order of the Ministers of the Sick will begin. Over 400 years of Camillian history will come together because the analyses and the debates which will follow one another