San Camillo de Lellis stands at Via Sallustiana 24 in Rome. It is dedicated to Saint Camillus de Lellis, who lived from 1550 to 1614. Tullio Passarelli designed it, and it was built under Pope Pius X for the Priest Ministers of the Sick, the order Camillus founded. Cardinal Antonio Agliardi laid the first stone in 1906, and the church was consecrated and made a parish church in 1910.
The facade is Neo-Gothic in the Lombard manner, built of red stone with travertine decoration. It has three doorways, each with a bas-relief lunette, and a gallery between the two stories decorated with symbols of the Evangelists.
Inside, a Latin cross plan has three aisles divided by arched pillars. A statue of Saint Camillus by Alberto Galli, made in 1911, stands in a niche by the high altar. Pope Paul VI raised the church to a minor basilica in 1965.
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