St Camillus Church

The “Society for Sick and Dying Servants”, founded by St Camillus, was in service in the Győr hospital from 1761. The blessed activities of the Camillian fathers was ended by Joseph II’s dissolution of the monastic orders. However, their church in Nádorváros remained, with the order’s stone coat-of-arms on its facade. The altar structure filling the back wall of the sanctuary features 15 gilded wooden sculptures. The central figures of the statue group are the Virgin Mary dressed in the sun above and the kings St Stephen and St Ladislaus on the two sides. The high altarpiece depicting the divine experience of St Camillus was painted by Antonio Capacci of Florence in 1780. Two side altars adorn the nave. The relief’s scene on the pulpit’s balustrade is related to the movement of the statue figure standing on its sounding board: raising the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments, Moses prepares to throw them among the people who have lowered themselves to worship the golden calf. In the rectory next to the church, you can see an exact copy of Jesus’s burial shroud, which is preserved in Turin.