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Who is the founder of the order known as the Brothers Hospitallers?

   St John of God
   St. Stephen
   St. Martin
   St. Vitalis

Your answer was: St John of God.
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Answer: St. John of God (1495-1550) is the founder of the Brothers Hospitallers, officially known as the Brothers to Rome. In 1584, Pope Gregory XIII called some of the Brothers to Rome and gave them the Hospital of St. John Calybita, now Fatebenefratelli Hospital, which is located on the western side of the Tiber Island. St. John of God was canonized by Pope Alexander VIII in 1690 and was declared the patron saint of the dying and of all hospitals by Pope Leo XIII in 1898.

See:
 • James C. Hamilton, Vatican City: St. John of God and the Fatebenefratelli Hospital of the Tiber Island, Vatican Notes, Volume 69, Issue 388, 2021, Page 30-31


St. John Of God
Scott # 775 (1986)