person
Saint Jean de Dieu
Jean de Dieu
also: St John of God, Juan de Dios
St John of God (1495--1550), founder of the Brothers Hospitallers; in his own death-agony he sprang up to cut down a man who had just hanged himself in the garden---again, for Malte, only a matter of the truth.
Reading notes
- The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge §331 Saint Jean de Dieu
St John of God (1495--1550), founder of the Brothers Hospitallers; in his own death-agony he sprang up to cut down a man who had hanged himself in the garden.