The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-02-22
SOME. RED CROSS HISTORY.

SOME. RED GROSS diStON1.
by Father Henry 3. Tie,ney. Tren-
Ton. MOI
The Red Cross muses.. founded by
Cainillus de Lcllis in Rome nearly
$50 years ago, are doing heroic work
in Italy, France. Germany and Aus
tria in the present q In Ger
many and Austria they arc officially
recognized by the imperial govern
nlent as The Cross Of Cainillus.'
In Germany ceveral camp hospitals
behind the trenches arc conided to
their cane. One hospital train in
their charge is presided var by
twenty-five Of their nurses. In Aus
tia they are also close TO the battle
line, serving in the sanitary CORPS
and on the hospital trains and in hos
pitfalls OF the knights of Malta.
In Italy great numbers have been
called to service in the regular SAM
tary corps Of the army and the Rel
Cross Sisters of Camillus. whom NJ
roleon delighted 10 rall the aneei
nuns of the battle field, are working
as an organization under the army
medical authorities in the hospital,
; and camps.
Under the present French eorerr-
mcnt the Red Cross of St. CamilluS
has no legal existence, still its priests
and nurses are welcomed in the sani-
! tary and fighting corps of the French
| army. There were ut the beginning
| Of the war $4,000 priests in the
trenches of the French army. many
| of them of the Red Cross. Twenty
thousand of these soldier priests have
been killed, among the several of
my personal friends.
American citizens should take pride
in the fast that the association Of the
Red Cross nurses, which the United
States go errmcnt is iudorsing SC
highly andt o which We are all on
| .ributing so ~urspnrirgly, was antici-
Dated by u Roman soldier 300 years
before Jean Henri Dunant, the Swiss
humanitarian, succeeded in getting
| an international conference TO adopt
the Red Cross of Camillus idea in
1864. Dunant always admitted that
the work of Camillus was his inspira-
|'ion and that it was from the Red
Cross of Camillus that he got the
Name and idea of his great project.
The United States government did
not come into the conference until
1882, and then greatly through infiu-
encc OF Clara Barton.
Camillus de Lellis. the Roman SOL
der who organized nurses to take
care of the sick in hospitals and the
wounded on the battlefield with Il red
cross as their emblem, was c%annonized
BY Pope Benedict XIV, his feast day
being the 18th of July. Pope Leo
| XIII on June %. 1856. announced
that Camillus would be the patron of
nurses whether they wore the red
cross or not.
Chest della Maddalcna. in Rome,
where st. Camillus labOred and died,
! is still the home of the father gen.
eral of the order, Rev. Father Nido.
Over the door floats the banner of
| the Red Cross. The members of the
order of St. Camillus. known in Italy
AS Ministri degli lnfarmi. ministers
of the sick. number nearly eight hun
dred and are spread over Italy.
France, Spain, Germany, Holland.
ireland, Denmark. Austria and Peru.
There are hundreds of sisters tnuns)
who are. in a way. under the .juris-
diction Of Father General Fido, and
who also are for the sick and wound
ed. The Camillus Tor Camullin)
Fathers. rs they are called, serve
with the sisters the hospital of st.
, John of the Lateran of Rome. as
we'll "a hospitals in Verona. Mantua,
| Cremona. Treviso and Naples. all of
which are most valuable aids in car
inc for the wounded of the war. In
Germany they have five hospitals. the
, most famous one being the great san
itoriupl for alcoholic patients. which
was fhe first of its kind anywhere.
Ia Holland they have Il huge clinic.
II iceland they have a hospital, in
De, mark another; IN Peru three hos
! pitfalls. and in Austria ten hospitals
vei flowing with suffering people.
! They have served in all the wars
| ince 1901. and several times in their
, ai'tory the wcarcrj of the Red Gross
| OF Camil!uS have bccn nigh oXteimi-
mated IN the plaques through which
hey served and which carried off so
many of their numbers "Precursori
della Croce Rosa" is the title Of a
book published in Turin. Italy. which
~iyes a brief resume of the work of
St. Camillus and his followers dur
/ ipg the past 800 years. 1t is illus
trated with several portraits of st.
Camillus and his more notable sue
cessors. There is a reproduction of a
rare old copper plate engraving pie |
turing the dream of Camilla. the