Maria Domenica Brun Barbantini

Maria Domenica Brun Barbantini (17 January 1789 — 22 May 1868) was an Italian Roman Catholic religious sister and the founder of the Camillian Sisters Ministers of the Sick. Barbantini served the ill throughout her entire life and she dedicated her life to God]following the premature deaths of her husband and son. Barbantini's beatification was held in Saint Peter's Square in mid-1995.

Life Maria Domenica Brun was born in 1789 in Lucca to the Swiss-born Pietro Brun and Giovanna Granducci.

Brun married Salvatore Barbantini on 22 April 1811 at the Cathedral of Saint Martin but her husband died that October. At her husband's death, Brun took a private vow of consecration to God and vowed to dedicate her life to the service of his people.

Camillian Sisters Barbantini spent time living with the Visitandines and later met the priest Antonio Scalabrini who guided her to the spirit of service to all people and to the service of the ill and frail. To that end she founded the Camillian Sisters Ministers of the Sick on 23 January 1829 in order to aid those ailing with illnesses. At first, the first community was called the 'Sisters Oblate Nurses', but subsequently was known as the women Ministers of the Sick of St. Camillus (in Latin ). In 1979, the Camillian Sisters arrived in the Philippines, where they operate the "Camillian Sisters Polyclinic and Rehabilitation Center".