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• • Carmona (Spain), 1544/6 - Jerez de la Frontera, 3 June 1600 He was born in Carmona (Spain) in 1546 and as a young man, after a brief hermitic experience in which he made the decision to dedicate himself to the service of others, he decided to move to Jerez and began assisting prisoners. But he soon focused his interest on the healthcare sector and was entrusted with an infirmary for patients rejected by hospitals.  Disciples soon joined him and around 1574 he decided to merge his group with the one that arose in Granada on the initiative of Saint John of God. Dressed in the dress of the Fatebenefratelli, he continued to work in the Andalusian city of Jerez de la Frontera, where in 1589 he was also tasked by the local authorities with reorganizing the entire hospital network of the city. He died assisting the plague victims on 3 June 1600. Roman Martyrology: In Jerez in Andalusia in Spain, Saint John the Great, religious of the Order of Saint John of God, who shone for his charity towards prisoners, the abandoned and the marginalized and died himself infected by the plague while treating the sick.

    At the age of eleven he lost his father, the craftsman Cristoforo Grande. He later follows in his footsteps, going to learn the weaver's trade in nearby Seville. At the age of 17 he returned to Carmona, started a fabric business, but two years later it had already become something else. He no longer wears the good cloth of which he is an expert: they see him walking around in the habit of a penitent. And he no longer presents himself as Giovanni Grande Román (with the surnames of his father and mother, according to Spanish custom). He wants to be called “John the Sinner”. He welcomes two abandoned old spouses into his home. He also asks for alms, to support them, he gives his all. And these two unhappy people with their suffering give him an idea. The idea of ​​his life. The idea drove him, in his twenties, from Carmona to Jerez de la Frontera (so called because it was a fortified center of the rulers of Castile on the border of the Arab kingdom of Granada). Here too he goes around the streets asking. But above all to explain: from street to street and from year to year, he raises people's awareness of two unfair situations of suffering: that of convalescents whom hospitals quickly get rid of, declaring them cured; and that of the so-called incurable, abandoned by the "structures" of time. The Franciscans of Jerez give him help in these information and denunciation campaigns. “Giovanni Peccatore” shakes many consciences and obtains help for a first infirmary, intended for all those who the hospitals reject. He is not yet thirty years old and is now an authority in Jerez, who helps and guides the local governments. In health emergencies he is called upon, and when he asks for support for his business the response is positive. Also because everyone sees, for example, how his infirmary works for the "unpopular": and they are ready to help him when he decides to transform it into a real and complete hospital, which he dedicated to the Madonna, with the title of Our Lady of Candlemas.  We arrive at 1574. Giovanni Grande is 30 years old. A single and simple layman, who has built something also for the personal trust he inspires; it is he who listens to and helps. But now think about what's next. To the stability of what he has already been able to create. And at this point he discovers that another simple layman worked like him for the sick and put together a group of other laymen, who after his death formed a religious congregation. This other layman, of Portuguese origin, is well known in Spain with the name of John of God (1495-1550). And the members of his congregation are equally well known, with the popular name of "Fatebenefratelli". Giovanni Grande meets them in Granada, in the same year 1574. And he decides to join them, introducing the precepts and rules they follow into his hospital. And so it happens with the hospitals he founded in the cities of Andalusia, all guided by the commandment of welcoming the rejected of all conditions: incurables, prisoners, prostitutes, and even those expelled from the royal army of Philip II. In 1600 a violent plague epidemic broke out in Jerez.  Giovanni organizes assistance, and goes to provide it personally in the streets and in homes, until the plague strikes him too, and he dies with many others at the age of 56. In 1986 Pope John Paul II proclaimed him a saint. His remains are kept in the sanctuary dedicated to him in the Fatebenefratelli hospital in Jerez.