John of God
Portuguese soldier
John of God, OH was a Portuguese soldier turned health-care worker in Spain, whose followers later formed the Brothers Hospitallers of Saint John of God, a Catholic religious institute dedicated to the care of the poor, sick and those with mental... Wikipedia
Born: March 8, 1495, Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal
Died: March 8, 1550 (age 55 years), Granada, Spain
Parents: Teresa Duarte and André Cidade
Canonized: October 16, 1690, Rome, Papal States, by Pope Alexander VIII
Feast: March 8 (Roman Catholicism); November 26 (Eastern Lutheranism)
Patronage: Booksellers, hospitals, nurses, the mentally ill, heart patients, and the dying
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