Today Is...Saint Camillus De Lellis Day

The Saint's didn't start out all that saintly. Born in 16th-century Naples and followed in his father's footsteps by going into soldiering and joined the Venetian army just as they began fighting against the Turks where in one battle, he got a nasty leg wound but after a few more scraps the regiment was disbanded and he traded in his sword for a horse and cart but his real love was gambling but as much as he loved it, it didn't love him back because he lost everything, including his horse, and was forced to work as a labourer at the local friary.
The guardian of the friary would often talk to him about God and things on his tea break and he offered him the chance to make it up to the big guy upstairs by doing his work down here.
He entered the Novitiate of the Capuchin Friars although his leg wound continued to bother him and refused to heal but he decided that he could help the soldiers wounded on the battlefield so created a group of health care workers who would assist soldiers during conflict and they carried a large red cross to show the soldiers not to get all stabby on them as they were there to help.
It obviously worked because the big Red Cross became a thing but the problem with spending time around the sick is that you get sick yourself and as well as that damned unhealing sore on his leg, he suffered a rupture, weeping sores on his body, violent colic and a loss of appetite which compared to the other things, not being very peckish could have been worse.
At the age of 65, after a long life of care-giving, conflict, and not feeling hungry, he went and died despite all the prayers because popping a leach in your trousers and praying is not as effective as proper medicine and he was laid to rest in peace or rather in peace until someone decided to rip his Christ-loving heart out of his dead chest to send it on a tour around the globe for religious folk to gawp at rather than letting his mortal remains just turn to dust in a tasteful grave somewhere which truth told, would probably be his first choice but the Catholic Church does like a Saintly body part to hoick about.