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  Camillus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Camillus was a Roman cognomen derived from the general term, most famously used by Marcus Furius Camillus, and by other members of the gens Furia.
Camillus de Lellis, a patron saint of nurses, established a hospital in Rome in the 1500s.
Camillus was the nom de plume of Alexander Hamilton, used in a series of papers entitled Defense of the Treaty published in 1795.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Camillus   (217 words)

  
 Marcus Furius Camillus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marcus Furius Camillus (circa 446- 365 BC) was a Roman soldier and statesman of patrician descent.
To this element probably belongs the story of the schoolmaster who, when Camillus was attacking Falerii, attempted to betray the town by bringing into his camp the sons of some of the principal inhabitants of the place.
Camillus, it is said, had him whipped back into the town by his pupils, and the Faliscans were so affected by this generosity that they at once surrendered.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marcus_Furius_Camillus   (323 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Camillus of Lellis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
St Camillus De Lellis was born at Bacchianico, Naples, 1550 and died at Rome on the 14 July 1614.
Camillus' mother died while he was still a child and his father was an officer in both the Neapolitan and French armies.
After his regiment was disbanded in 1574 Camillus worked in a hospital for uncurables, however his aggressive nature and excessive gambling led to his dismissal.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Camillus-of-Lellis   (252 words)

  
 The Internet Classics Archive | Camillus by Plutarch
This was the condition of the times when Camillus was in the height of his actions and glory, and, although the government in the meantime had often proceeded to consular elections, yet he could never persuade himself to be consul against the inclination of the people.
Camillus, being assaulted by their clamour and tumults, for want of a better excuse, betook himself to the poorest of defences, confessing he had forgotten his vow; they in turn complained that he had vowed the tenth of the enemy's goods, and now levied it out of the tenth of the citizens'.
Camillus sent them to Rome, where, being brought into the senate, they spoke to this purpose: that the Romans, preferring justice before victory, had taught them rather to embrace submission than liberty; they did not so much confess themselves to be inferior in strength, as they must acknowledge them to be superior in virtue.
classics.mit.edu /Plutarch/camillus.html   (5518 words)

  
 St. Camillus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Camillus, son of a captain of fortune John de Lellis, was born in Bucchianico (Chieti) on 25 of May 1550.
Camillus has realized that a person enters the hospital with the whole himself, not leaving outside anything of his person and of his personality, he takes with him his poor rags but also his free and immortal spirit.
Constant concern of Camillus was the formation of the new followers (and the confirmation of those already engaged) to their mission of "servants of the sick" by visiting frequently the communities and the hospitals and by remaining there to work with his companions.
www.camilliani.org /en/stcamillus.htm   (3105 words)

  
 Saint Camillus de Lellis | Catholic-Pages.com
Saint Camillus de Lellis was born in 1550 in the Abruzzi region of Italy.
Camillus always referred to himself as a great sinner, but in fact his only vice seem to be gambling.
Saint Camillus de Lellis, with St. John-of-God, are the Patron Saints of the sick, and he is also the patron of nurses and nursing associations.
www.catholic-pages.com /saints/st_camillus.asp   (486 words)

  
 MARCUS FURIUS CAMILLUS - LoveToKnow Article on MARCUS FURIUS CAMILLUS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Camillus was attacking Falerii (q.v.), attempted to betray the town.
Camifius, it is said, had him whipped back into the town by his pupils, and the Faliscans were so affected by this generosity that they at once sulrendered.
CAMILLUS and CAMILLA, in Roman antiquity, originally terms used for freeborn children.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CA/CAMILLUS_MARCUS_FURIUS.htm   (362 words)

  
 CAMILLUS KNIVES
Camillus Cutlery Company is one of the oldest knife manufacturers in the United States.
Regardless of whether or not you have used or owned a Camillus product, anyone who is into knife collecting certainly is aware of this company and their products.
Speaking of the dedicated men and women that make up Camillus Cutlery, some of them are third and fourth generation employees, carrying on the work of their ancestors.
www.covecutlery.com /Category.cfm?CategoryID=199   (365 words)

  
 Marcus Furius Camillus -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Marcus (Click link for more info and facts about Furius) Furius Camillus (circa (Click link for more info and facts about 446) 446- 365 BC) was a Roman soldier and statesman of (A person of refined upbringing and manners) patrician descent.
He died of the (A serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected rat flea (especially bubonic plague)) plague in his eighty-first year ((Click link for more info and facts about 365) 365).
To this element probably belongs the story of the schoolmaster who, when Camillus was attacking (Click link for more info and facts about Falerii) Falerii, attempted to betray the town by bringing into his camp the sons of some of the principal inhabitants of the place.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/marcus_furius_camillus.htm   (378 words)

  
 July 18, St Camillus de Lellis, Confessor [originated the Red Cross] (1962 Missal and Kalendar)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Today is the feastday of St Camillus de Lellis, another post-Trent or Counter Reformation saint, founder of the Order of Clerks Regular Ministers of the Sick, the Camillans or Camillians, the Brothers of a Happy Death.
Camillus was a son of the noble family of the Lelli, and was born at Bucchianico, a town in the diocese of Chieti.
Camillus was welcomed with great joy, also with much anxiety, for his birth was preceded by a strange dream that profoundly disturbed his mother.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-religion/1445211/posts   (2301 words)

  
 St. Camillus de Lellis
For a time after her death Camillus was placed under the care of relatives, who took little interest in him; his character was not such as to win sympathy, and he was allowed to drift very much as he chose.
So long as Camillus was safe at his work in the hospital of S. Giacomo, St. Philip was happy about him; when he heard that he had left the place, and had taken up his abode in the lowest quarters of the town, he was not a little distressed.
Camillus never seemed to care; he was always giving; when his stock ran out he would keep an account of the needs of others and would send them shoes, and clothes, and the like as soon as he was able.
www.ewtn.com /library/MARY/STCAML.htm   (6181 words)

  
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And now Camillus, being called to his sixth tribuneship, desired to be excused, as being aged, and perhaps not unfearful of the malice of fortune, and those reverses which seem to ensue upon great prosperity.
The senate strongly opposed it, and would not suffer Camillus to lay down his dictatorship, thinking that, under the shelter of his great name and authority, they should be better able to contend for the power of his aristocracy.
In the election of consuls held by Camillus, Marcus Aemilius was chosen of the patricians, and Lucius Sextius the first of the commonalty; and this was the last of all Camillus's actions.
classics.mit.edu /Plutarch/camillus.1b.txt   (6410 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Camillus Cutlery Co., of Camillus, NY has been an active supplier to the United States Armed Forces since the turn of the last century.
Camillus has redesigned two Becker’s to be specifically adapted for military use: the BK2SG Campanion NSN #1095-01-493-1798 and the BK3SG Tac Tool NSN #1095-01-493-1802.
Camillus also manufactures an exclusive line of fixed blade and folding knives made of Talonite, a Cobalt-Chromium alloy that will hold an edge almost indefinitely, and is impervious to rust and corrosion.
www.ausa.org /ausa/members.nsf/0/0a63fdf8f687404d85256c07006d7651?OpenDocument&AutoFramed   (531 words)

  
 Communitysite - New York - Camillus
The Town of Camillus, established in 1799, is located on the Southwest side of Onondaga Lake and the West side of Onondaga County.
The Town of Camillus is divided into the Hamlets of Amboy, Belle Isle, Fairmount, Newport, Oswego Bitter, parts of Warners, Westerlea, and a very small corner of Memphis, and the Village of Camillus.
Camillus has gained an outstanding reputation for its consistent demonstration of a volunteer spirit, which is such an important part of an active community.
www.communitysite.com /Newyork/Syracuse/camillus.htm   (255 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Camillus de Lellis
Pope Sixtus V confirmed the congregation in 1586, and ordained that there should be an election of a general superior every three years.
Camillus was naturally the first, and was succeeded by an Englishman, named Roger.
Two years afterwards a house was established in Naples, and there two of the community won the glory of being the first martyrs of charity of the congregation, by dying in the fleet which had been quarantined off the harbour, and which they had visited to nurse the sick.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/03217b.htm   (708 words)

  
 Marcus Furius Camillus (4)
Next year, 381 V, Camillus was elected as military tribune, and his nephew Lucius Furius Medullinus (the son of Camillus' brother Spurius) was to be one of his colleagues.
If someone had invented Camillus' dictatorship, he would not have invented his lack of success; and if the dictatorship was fictious, the inventor would have invented a motive why it was unsuccessful.
Plutarch of Chaeronea mentions in his Life of Camillus that Camillus had developed new weapons, and it may be that this remark is an echo of the army reforms of the decade after 390 (above).
www.livius.org /fo-fz/furius/camillus4.html   (1764 words)

  
 Saints - Camillus de Lellis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Camillus' 65 year old mother had a dream that a yet unborn son of hers would wear a red cross on his chest, leading many others wearing that same emblem.
One day, a member of the Cathedral of Monfredonia saw Camillus outside the cathedral's gates and he immediately took pity on Camillus, giving him a job as an assistant to a mason.
Camillus later joined that same monastery; however, due to the recurring problems with his ulcerated leg, Camillus was forced to take leaves of absence and was finally dismissed.
www.scborromeo.org /saints/camillus.htm   (380 words)

  
 PGSA - St. Camillus Chicago
In 1924, the Polish parish of St. Blase was organized in Argo from the older territorial parish of St. Joseph in Summit.
A history of St. Camillus Church published in The New World of May 24, 1935 contained the information that parish membership numbered 320 families and that 260 children were enrolled in the school.
The golden jubilee of St. Camillus Church was celebrated on Oct. 17, 1971; John Cardinal Cody presided at the special Mass of Thanksgiving.
www.pgsa.org /ArchChiPolPar/StCamillusChi.htm   (1324 words)

  
 St. Camillus to Close Sensitive Care Unit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Sensitive Care Unit was housed in a completely renovated wing of St. Camillus and staffed by experts in HIV/AIDS care.
Longtime employees of St. Camillus told Wisconsin IN Step that the patients on the unit are angered by the decision.
Camillus is abandoning their work and what they promised to do.”
www.instepnews.com /sensitivecare.html   (588 words)

  
 Camillus, New York
The area is in the center of New York State in the beautiful Finger Lakes region, a few miles to the west of the city of Syracuse.
Camillus is in Onondaga County, along Route 5, on the banks of the Nine Mile River.
The Town of Camillus was originally settled in 1791 by Captain Isaac Lindsay.
www.dreamscape.com /wgtaweb/westgeneseecomm.html   (212 words)

  
 What's New at St. Camillus
St. Camillus is hosting a monthly support group for individuals caring for someone with Alzheimer's disease or other types of dementia.
St. Camillus held off as long as it could, but was forced to pass along the 6% New York State nursing homes tax on all patient care services except those covered by Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance.
Camillus is taking a proactive approach to gaining more nurses by training its own.
www.st-camillus.org /wutnewhm.htm   (641 words)

  
 Camillus - Plutarch's Lives
Camillus, being assaulted by their clamor and tumults, for want of a better excuse, betook himself to the poorest of defenses, confessing he had forgotten his vow; they in turn complained that he had vowed the tenth of the enemy’s goods, and now levied it out of the tenths of the citizens.
Nay, when at last they did perceive that the enemy had seized the city, they were so overloaded with meat and wine, that few were able so much as to endeavor to escape, but either waited shamefully for their death within doors, or surrendered themselves to the conqueror.
In the election of consuls held by Camillus, Marcus Æmilius was chosen of the patricians, and Lucius Sextius the first of the commonalty; and this was the last of all Camillus’s actions.
www.constitution.org /rom/plutarch/camillus.htm   (6372 words)

  
 Camillus on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
He captured Veii, saved Rome from the Gauls, defeated the Aequi and Volscians, took Praeneste (the modern Palestrina), and defeated the Gauls at Alba Longa.
VILLAGE EVICTS ITS FIRE UNIT; CAMILLUS TRUSTEES RESPOND TO THE FIREFIGHTERS' DECISION TO SECEDE FROM VILLAGE.(Local)
TOWN OF CAMILLUS APPROVES APPOINTEES, SALARIES FOR '04; COUNCILOR OPPOSED ONE APPOINTMENT BECAUSE OF RESIDENCY ISSUES.(Neighbors West)
www.encyclopedia.com /html/C/Camillus.asp   (420 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: LUCAS, MARGARET [MOTHER MARY CAMILLUS]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Mary Camillus and her sister were among the three novices who moved with Mother Catherine Grant to St. Patrick's parish on October 17, 1871.
When San Patricio was ready in June 1876, Mother Camillus accompanied half of the sisters to their third Texas mission.
Camillus so enjoyed her work with the survivors of two hurricanes that it was difficult for her to move to Smithville in 1896 at the direction of Bishop John A. Forest.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/LL/flu21.html   (586 words)

  
 Octagon House, Camillus NY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
An 1856 Landmark of Camillus, N.Y. In 1844, Isaiah Wilcox, a native of Rhode Island, and his wife, Ann Sherman of Connecticut, came west to settle in Camillus on property owned by an acquaintance from Rhode Island.
Isaiah Wilcox was anti-slavery and a deacon of the Camillus Baptist Church.
Ann, Isaiah and their son and daughter were buried close to the main road in the Fairmount Cemetery.
www.yrbook.com /octagon   (323 words)

  
 Camillus CUDA EDC A.G. Russel D2 review
Camillus and a custom knife maker Darrel Ralph.
Later, for Camillus 125th anniversary limited edition EDC was produced, that one featured fl coating, titanium nitride coated screws, clip and gold etching on the 154CM blade.
D2 used by REKAT in their special edition SIFU is different than the one used by Camillus.
www.zknives.com /knives/folding/hiend/cudaedc.shtml   (1053 words)

  
 Camillus
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 Marcus Furius Camillus (1)
To start with, it should be noted that in his age, the usual republican magistracy of consul was not common.
A possible explanation is their connection to Tusculum, a Latin town to the southeast of Rome, close to modern Frascati.
The third one, Marcus, received the surname Camillus, which was the title of a noble boy who served as the priest's assistant.
www.livius.org /fo-fz/furius/camillus.html   (1286 words)

  
 GAETANO GANDOLFI - Saint Camillus of Lellis
Since the Saint Camillus is not documented, Cazort considers it to be a late work comparable to the San Gaetano da Thiene (Loreto, Museo Pinacoteca Santa Casa) and therefore datable around 1793 (see Fig.
Camillus of Lellis (1530-1614) was the founder of the Congregation of Ministers of the Sick.
Camillus was a pioneer in insisting on suitable diet and quarantine for the sick, and he founded eight hospitals before his death in Genoa.
www.europeanpaintings.com /exhibits/xviiicent/gandocam.htm   (933 words)

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