Tracy L. Christianson
St. Camillus de Lellis, 1550-1614
Icon
7.25" x 10" x .375"
More than seven years ago, she decided to turn her art work into an apostolate promoting devotion to those raised to the altars, and those whose causes are still advancing.
Christianson had a good job as a corporate graphic designer when she was encouraged to make her avocation into a full-time vocation. What started very small has blossomed into a successful business that employs an entire family.
Her work gives a face and voice to lesser-known figures. And her depictions of popular saints like St. Thérèse of Lisieux, St. Pio of Pietrelcina, and St. Patrick have familiarity with a new warmth to them. She added 50 new portraits to the catalog over the past year, with new requests coming in all the time. More on Tracy Christianson
Camillus de Lellis was born on May 25, 1550, Kingdom of Naples. His mother, Camilla Compelli de Laureto, was nearly fifty when she gave birth to him. His father was an officer in both the Neapolitan and French royal armies and was seldom home. Due to his mother's age and retiring nature, she felt unable to control him. He grew up neglected by the family members who took him in after her death. De Lellis joined his father in the Venetian army and fought in a war against the Turks.
Unknown artist, signed H. Letter
The Battle of Lepanto of 1571
Oil on canvas
1270 mm x 2324 mm
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
After a number of years of military service, his regiment was disbanded in 1575. Having gambled away all his possessions, De Lellis took work as a laborer at the Capuchin friary at Manfredonia
Unknown artist
Saint Camillus de Lellis
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Pierre Subleyras (1699 - 1749)
The loving courtesan (1735)
The loving courtesan (1735)
A leg wound he received was declared incurable by the physicians
Oil on canvas
24 x 30 cm (9,2 x 12,0 inches)
Private collection
He was constantly plagued, however, by a leg wound he received while in the army, which would not heal, and was declared incurable by the physicians.
Pierre Subleyras (1699 - 1749)
San Camillo saves the sick from the Tiber
Oil on canvas
48 x 33.2 cm | 18.9 x 13.1 inches
Museo di Roma
Pierre Subleyras (November 25, 1699 – May 28,
1749) was a French painter, active during the late-Baroque and
early-Neoclassic period, mainly in Italy.
He left
France in 1728, having carried off the French Academy's grand prix, which
provided scholarship for study in Rome. In Rome, he painted for the Elector of
Saxony, Frederick Christian, a "Christ's Visit to the House of Simon the
Pharisee", (later engraved by Subleyras himself), this work procured his
admission into the famed Roman artists guild, Accademia di San Luca.
Cardinal
Valenti Gonzaga next obtained for him the order for Saint Basil & Emperor
Valens (also known as the Mass of St. Basil.
He was a
remarkably incisive portraitist. The pope himself commanded two great
paintings, the "Marriage of St Catherine" and the "Ecstasy of St
Camilla", which he placed in his own private apartments.
Subleyras
shows greater individuality in his curious genre pictures, which he produced in
considerable number. In his illustrations of La Fontaine and Boccaccio his true
relation to the modern era comes out; and his drawings from nature are often
admirable.
Exhausted by overwork, Subleyras tried a change to Naples,
but returned to Rome at the end of a few months to die. More on Pierre
Subleyras
He then moved to Rome where he entered the San Giacomo Hospital, which cared for incurable cases. He himself became a caregiver at the hospital, and later its Superintendent. He now a strict ascetic life, performing many penances.
Unknown artist
Conversion of St. Camillus
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De Lellis was led to invite a group of pious men to express their faith through the care of the patients at the hospital. Eventually he established a religious community for this purpose. Neri, his confessor, gave him approval for this endeavor, and a wealthy donor provided him with the income necessary to undertake his seminary studies.
He established the Order of Clerks Regular, Ministers of the Infirm, the Camillians. His experience in wars led him to establish a group of health care workers who would assist soldiers on the battlefield. The large red cross on their cassock remains a universal symbol of charity and service.
Unknown artist
Saint Camillus
I have no further description of this artwork at this time
Members of the Order also devoted themselves to victims of Bubonic plague. It was due to the efforts of the brothers and supernatural healings by de Lellis that the people of Rome credited de Lellis with ridding the city of a great plague and the subsequent famine. For a time, he became known as the "Saint of Rome".
Cristóbal Lozano ,(1705–1776)
Ecstasy of Saint Camillus de Lellis, c. 1762
Oil on canvas
Height: 1,345 mm (52.95 in); Width: 990 mm (38.97 in)
Lima Art Museum
I have no further on the artist, at this time
Throughout his life De Lellis' ailments caused him suffering, but he allowed no one to wait on him and would crawl to visit the sick when unable to stand and walk. It is said that Camillus possessed the gifts of healing and prophecy. He resigned in 1607, but continued to serve. He died in Rome in 1614. More on Camillus de Lellis
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