The Office for Communications of the Fourth Centenary has learnt with great joy that a docu-fiction entitled ‘I will serve you’ is currently being made. This is an account of the life of St. Camillus and lays emphasis on his work 
for the sick and the weakest. Produced by Christina-Video, a young Roman film company, this docu-fiction will pay great attention to what St. Camillus did in hospitals and to the way in which he changed for ever the concept of health care. Hence his insight as to the need to found the Congregation of the ‘Ministers of the Sick’ which was to care for sick people ‘with the same dedication that a mother has for her child’.
The filming of this docu-fiction, which will last fifty-two minutes, is taking place in Rome and in Sermoneta, a small medieval town in the Province of Latina, the sponsor of the work. The young actor Fabrizio Colica (from the Experimental Centre of Cinematography in Rome) plays the part of St. Camillus and the supporting actors are Antonello Caggiari, Claudio Colica and Gioacchino Mazzoli. Fabio Carini is the director.
This docu-fiction is based upon texts by Felice Ruffini, a biographer of the Camillians; Father Franco Azzalli, a former lecturer on the history of the Church at the Pontifical Urbanian University; and on some biographies of St. Camillus, amongst which one by Father Sanzio Ciccatelli, one of his first companions, and by Father Pantaleone Dolera, who during the eighteenth century added further information though the acts of the processes of canonisation.
The Christiana-Video film company has behind it a journey of faith and mission promoted by its founders. It has already drawn attention to itself abroad through its work ‘Roma caput fidei’, an original journey through the history of Christendom by way of the churches of the capital city and through a docu-fiction on one of the patron saints of Rome, St. Francesca Romana.
This docu-fiction is a practical and incisive way of channelling the message of St. Camillus and of making it known about to the general public during 2014, the year when we are celebrating the fourth centenary of his death.
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