ST JOHN OF GOD HOSPITAL 1690 OF PIAZZA ARMERINA ENNA SICILIA

In 1690 the Fatebenefratelli change both the name at the Hospital of St. Thomas the Apostle and is named after the Church in "San Giovanni di Dio", fifty-two years after their arrival.

This replacement takes place in honor of the founder of the order which was made by blessed Saint by Pope Alexander VIII this year and since 1680 has already been proclaimed, with the permission of the magistrate in the city, Urban V co-patron.
initiates the customary for schoolchildren of the city on the day of the March 8, feast of the 8 March 1550, 1495 lived from gifts to the sick at the hospital.

The friars, Platia also called Benefratelli and running the Monte di Pietà, are bound to the care of exposed to the wheel (foundlings) and treatment of women in need, for which they receive from the Jurors of the city 100 ounces per year (ca. 18,000 Euros today).

They must provide for the salary of the doctor, the surgeon, the laundress, the Barber, the notary and the aromataio (apothecary preparing medicines).
St. John of God in the 19th century will be declared patron of hospitals by Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903)

ST JOHN OF GOD HOSPITAL 1690 OF PIAZZA ARMERINA ENNA SICILIA

GAETANO MASUZZO, Piazza Armerina