St Camillus de Lellis

Picture Book of Saints #05
by Fr Lawrence G. Lovasik

St. Joseph Picture Book Series, Part 5 of 12 books on the "Super-Heroes of God"--commonly known as Saints--by beloved author Rev. Lawrence G. Lovasik, S.V.D. introduces Catholic children to 15 of the most well-known Saints. Among the features of this book are:

• a full-color illustration of each Saint
• short, easy-to-understand lives of the Saints that offer a window on what made them so special in the eyes of God
• the feast day for each Saint in accordance with the liturgical calendar of the Catholic Church

Saints included in this edition are:

St. Basil the Great	St. Anthony the Abbot	St. Isidore of Seville	St. Vincent Ferrer
St. Gemma Galgani	St. Philip Neri	St. Camillus de Lellis	St. Christopher
St. Ignatius of Loyola	St. John Eudes	St. Gregory the Great	St. Robert Bellarmine
St. Paul of the Cross	St. Leo the Great	St. Peter Canisius

Paperback, size 7" x 5", 32 pages

A Soldier Surrenders
The Conversion of St. Camillus de Lellis
by Susan Peek

There are very few stories written about the life of St. Camillus, but his life story is one that both the young and old would do well to hear. In a style very captivating, Mrs. Peek imparts the fascinating story of this great saint who - at an early and rebellious age - went off to become a 16th century soldier-of-fortune. A belligerent and often brash young soldier, this self-seeking Camillus de Lellis frequently gives in to his passion for gambling and drinking, leaving him, for the most part, in dire straits. And though he sometimes cooperates with grace, he always seems to find himself back in trouble. Ultimately pushed to the brink of utter despair and humiliation, this stray and obstinate soul finally surrenders to the King of Kings, and the soldier of fortune becomes a soldier of Christ. An inspiring story of perseverance and the eventual surrender to the Divine Will.

Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 228 pages

Great Penitents
by Fr Hugh Francis Blunt, LL.D.

In this selection of more unknown penitents, there is the design to show that every age is the age of penitence; that every day the Prodigal Son is coming back home to his father, in the twentieth century as well as in the third, joyfully testifying to the old truth that it profiteth a man nothing to gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul. These men whose stories are told here are witnesses to the wisdom and the beauty of the penitential life. Their sacrifices were heroic. Yesterday their lives a scandal, today an inspiration to all.

Includes lives of:

The Fool of God - St John of God	The Jesuates founded by Bl. John Colombini	The Gambler - St Camillus de Lellis	Abbot De Rance
Silvio Pellico	Paul Feval	Father Hermann: Musician and Monk	J. B. Carpeaux
Francois Coppee	J. K. Huysmans	Paul Verlaine	A Litany of Penitents

Paperback, size 7.5" x 5.4" 270 pages

Saints for Sinners
Nine Desolate Souls Made Strong by God
by Archbishop Alban Goodier

God's grace can conquer every human flaw . . . Christ came not to call saints but to make them often out of weak, stupid, and sinful men. That's why the saints are not only models of holiness for us to imitate they're also reminders that God's grace can outshine every human flaw.

As Alban Goodier's classic Saints for Sinners shows us, even the greatest saints had to battle the same stubborn vices, temptations of the flesh, and bouts of spiritual dryness that afflict you and me today. In these pages, with a style that perfectly blends hagiographical detail, spiritual meditation, and a skilled storyteller's touch, Archbishop Goodier brings us the tales of:

• The mercenary fighting man and itinerant gambler who left behind his rough soldier's habits and founded a religious order to care for the sick
• The backward, sickly teenager, disowned by his family and dogged by the Inquisition, who became a miraculous healer and paragon of humble simplicity
• The willful Tuscan beauty with a bad reputation who forsook vanity and lust to answer God's call to live in poverty and penitence<
• The brilliant, brooding Spanish nobleman who gave up everything to be a missionary only to see most of his efforts fail
• The royal chaplain and daring Counter-Reformer who escaped the gallows but had to endure a lifelong interior martyrdom of doubt and discouragement
• The hedonistic heretic and womanizer who traded worldly pleasure for divine happiness, and became one of the Church's greatest theologians
• And other inspiring tales of imperfect souls "made perfect in infirmity"

Read these stories and find in them delight and encouragement, as well as hope. You'll come to see that there is no one so sinful, weak, or desolate that God has not already raised another like him to the heights of glory.

St Augustine of Hippo	St Margaret of Cortona	St John of God	St Francis Xavier	St John of the Cross
St Camillus de Lellis	St Joseph of Cupertino	St Claude de la Colombiere	St Benedict Joseph Labre

Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 178 pages

The Young People's Book of Saints
Sitxty-three Saints of the Western Church from the First to the Twentieth Century
by Hugh Ross Williamson

Sixty-three Saints of the Western Church from the 1st to the 20th Century Saints are the men and women who best love Christ and His Church.

They may be kings or queens, statesmen or soldiers, scholars, visionaries, workmen or beggars. They teach us the real meaning of human history, and they show us how to live in any walk of life or set of circumstances. 

Many of these saints were martyrs, killed in periods of persecution. Others died trying to bring the knowledge of Christ to pagan tribes. Yet others built up the Church through their example and their teaching, but were never called upon to shed their blood.

St James the Greater	St Denis	St Helen	St Ambrose of Milan	St Germain
St Patrick	St Genevieve	St Brigid of Ireland	St Benedict	St Gregory the Great
St Columba of Iona	St Hermengild	St Isidore of Seville	St Aiden	St Audry (Etheldreda)
St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne	St Giles	St Boniface	St Eulogius of Cordova	St Swithun
St Wenceslaus	St Wolfgang	Sts Henry & Cunegund	St Edward the Confessor	St Benno of Meissen
St Gregory VII	St Norbert	St Bernard of Clairvaux	St Thomas of Canterbury	St Hildegard
St Hugh of Lincoln	St Francis of Assisi	St Dominic	St Anthony of Padua	St Elizabeth of Hungary
St Willebold	St Louis IX	St Albert the Great	St Thomas Aquinas	Bl Ramon Lull
St Elizabeth the Peacemaker	St Catherine of Siena	St John Nepomucene	St Bernadine of Siena	St Joan of Arc
St Jerome Emiliani	St Thomas More	St Ignatius Loyola	St John of God	St Francis Xavier
St Teresa of Avila	St Peter Canisius	Bl Edmund Campion	St Camillus de Lellis	St Vincent de Paul
St Alphonsus Liguori	St Benedict Joseph Labre	The Cure d'Ars	St Bernadette	St John Bosco
St Therese of Lisieux	St Pius X	St Frances Xavier Cabrini

Paperback, size 9" x 6", 239 pages

Story of St Camillus
by Br Ernest, CSC

In 1550 Camillus was born in Italy. As a young boy he often got into trouble. After his parents died he decided to change the foolish life he was leading. He wanted to join the army but they wouldn't accept him so he started to work in a hospital. There he realized that hospital workers needed to be motivated by charity. Later he became a priest and founded an Order called the Company of the Servants of the Sick. Reading this story can encourage us to follow in the footsteps of St Camillus who saw each person as a child of God and cared for their needs.

Level 1

Paperback, size 8" x 6", 30 pages