‘Sentieri di Vita – Lettere a San Camillo de Lellis’ (‘Pathways of Life – Letters to St. Camillus de Lellis’) (Gabrielli editori) is a collection of letters written to St. Camillus de Lellis by Fr. Angelo Brusco, M.I., former Superior General of the Camillians from 1989 al 2001, the Director of the Camillian Centre for Formation of Verona, Emeritus Professor of Pastoral Psychology at the ‘Camillianum” International Institute of the Theology of Pastoral Care in Health, and lecturer in pastoral care in health and counselling at the Faculty of Theology of Triveneto (Padua).

‘The publication of this volume’, explains the same Camillian religious in the preface. ‘corresponds to a wish that arose again in my spirit while I was reading the programme of the celebrations that the Camillians Order drew up on the occasion of the fourth centenary of the death of its founder, St. Camillus de Lellis’.

By this collection of flashes, as they are called by the same author, which capture some of the aspects of the person and the life of this saint, together with an intimate and direct analysis of Camillian spirituality, a vision of such spirituality provided by years of belonging to the Order, Fr. Brusco provides his own contribution to the large number of initiatives offered by the organisation committee for the celebrations for the Camillian jubilee year.

In the twenty-six letters of the volume all the features that make up the variegated mosaic of the Great Camillian Family are addressed, amongst which the Lay Camillian Family (XVI) and the Camillian Task Force (XVII).

The hundred arms that St. Camillus himself would have liked to have to help all sick people and been able to do much more take practical form today in a multiple reality which is able to reach the poorest and most suffering people in every corner of the world.

Angelo Brusco addresses this reality with a set of letters that are addressed directly to the father Founder in the same way as one would do with a trusted and intimate friend, and with a solid spiritual guide whose charism still influences men today throughout the world.