Show I BADGE OF SPLENDID SERVICE SERVICE How Red Cross Came to Be Adopted by Those Whose Mission Is to Aid the Unfortunate The Red fled Cross as a badge of ot servIce service service ice for tor suffering humanity dates back more than three hundred years writes 1 I Ia I a correspondent to the Evening Post and Its origin must be of Interest at this time when It has expanded as a n society Into a multitude that ministers to the physical needs of our army and ond navy here and abroad Camillus de Lellis was born In the kingdom of Naples In 1550 After serving In the Venetian army he went wont to the ho hospital of San Giacomo GIncomo in Rome with an affection of ot the leg There he was so o much Impressed b by bythe bythe the horrors and filth of what was little I better than a that he resolved resolved re re- re- re solved d to devote otc his life to suffering humanity to care core for the plague plague- stricken and to nurse the sick In their own homes At two thirty two he was ordained a n priest and set about foundIng founding found found- Ing a 0 religious order to serve the sick They shall shaIl wear a 0 red cross upon their breasts said Camillus to remind remind remind re re- re- re mind them of the suffering of our Lord Yord Christ This will give them strength and encouragement Pope Sixtus V confirmed the congre congregation t In 1550 granting them In the the brIef u n special permission to wear the Red RedCross Cross This same red cross is the badge of service today worn by ever every Catholic religious order that takes care enre of the sick In every part of ot the world This red cross t hn ha J Jan pon n in to the leper settlements of or Mo- Mo and Madagascar in the cholera hospitals of India and the pestilence pestilence- stricken lands lunds of the far East as well as on the battlefields of France In Inthe Inthe Inthe the calendar St. St Camillus' Camillus day falls upon the of July and at his special pecia pe cia cial mass these words are chanted Greater love hum no mean uan l. l nn than thun tills this that a n man lay down his Is life for his friends Youths friends Youths Youth's Companion |