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The Camillians or (Clerks Regular) Ministers to the Sick are a Roman Catholic religious order of the type of Regular Clerks, founded by Saint Camillus de Lellis. A red cross was chosen by Camillus as the distinguishing badge for the members of the Order to wear upon their black cassocks. The founder taught his volunteers that the "hospital was a house of God, a garden where the voices of the sick were music from heaven".
Structure
As per June 2006, the Order of Clerks Regular Ministers of the Sick is divided into Provinces (the main level of geographical jurisdictions), some of which have Delegations and/or Foundations in other continents; they are distributed geographically as follows: Europe is divided into 11 Provinces (4 of which are in Italy), and 4 Foundations; Asia into 1 Province, 3 Delegations and 4 Foundations; Africa into 2 Delegations and 5 Foundations; Australia into 1 Delegation.
Mother House
Lombard-Venetian Province (central and eastern parts of northern Italy, the former Austrian part)
Foundation in Armenia
Foundation in Canada
Delegation in Colombia
Foundation in Ecuador
Delegation in Peru
Delegation in India
Delegation in Kenya
Delegation in Thailand
Piedmontese Province (north western Italy)
Foundation in Haiti
Foundation in Georgia (country)
Roman Province
Delegation in Burkina Faso
Sicilian-Neapolitan Province (southern Italy)
Foundation in Benin
Anglo-Irish Province
Delegation in Australia
Austrian Province
Foundation in Hungary
French Province
Foundation in Benin
Polish Province
Foundation in Germany
Foundation in Madagascar
Foundation in Italy
Foundation in Hungary
Spanish Province
Delegazione in Argentina
German Province
Dutch Province
Foundation in Tanzania
Foundation in Colombia
North-American Province
Brazilian Province
The Philippine Province with Taiwan and Australia as Delegations (known earlier as the Far East Province)
Sources and references
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