The Major superiors and the Delegates of the Ministers of the Sick, who have been meeting in recent days together with the General Council to discuss and implement the text of the Camillian Project which was drawn up during the fifty-seventh General Chapter last May, will today be on a pilgrimage to the generalate house of the Order.

This pilgrimage, a crucial stage of the spiritual journey undertaken with the inauguration of the jubilee year for the fourth centenary, envisages a visit to the heart of the Camillian Order: the Church of St. Mary Magdalene and the St. Camillus de Lellis Museum.

This church, in fact, has in it the remains of St. Camillus and the museum includes the cubiculum, the room where the Giant of Charity breathed his last. It has, amongst other things, the relic of the heart of St. Camillus and the crucifix which, according to tradition, comforted Camillus and exhorted him to continue his Work.

For the occasion, inside the Church of St. Mary Magdalene, there will be the showing of the body of St. Camillus. This is how Father Renato Salvatore, the Superior General, began the celebration of the Eucharist which he himself presided over in the Church of St. Mary Magdalene: ‘This the house of all of us, together with our Founder. With him we want to engage in discernment as to how to proclaim Christ in the world of health and throughout the world’.

 This is also spoken about here.
Visit the Facebook profile of Camillus de Lellis to see the photographs of the pilgrimage to the generalate house.