"Stay with God, go with God"...

  "Stay with God, go with God." 

 St John of God

"Every day of your life
keep God before your eyes.
See the Mass out to the end."

St John of God

Portugal (1495-1550)

Religious, Founder of Order of Hospitallers

Patron: Hospitals, the Sick, Nurses
Motivation Scripture: Whatsoever you do to one of these, 
the least of my brothers and sisters, you do to Me.

Feast Day  - March 8

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Murillo's St John of God

"(St John) requested those round his bed to leave him alone 

for a few minutes; he had lived his life alone, he would die alone.  

When they were gone he rose from his bed and knelt 

before a crucifix. The nurses entered shortly after and found him 

still kneeling there, his face resting on the feet of the Savior, but 

he was quite dead.  His body remained kneeling till it was taken up 

to be laid out for burial.  It was the eighth of March, 1550, a little 

after midnight.  At the time of his death John was fifty-five years of age." 

~ Excerpt from Saints For Sinners by Alban Goodier, S.J.

St John of God, pray for us!

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