Carlo Steeb spent his time in infirmaries, military hospitals, quarantine hospitals as a priest, nurse and an interpreler in three languages. He kept himself be teaching as he had no other form of income. His work was dedicated to the sick and suffering in war and peace. He was an important exponent of the “Evangelical Brotherhood of hospital Priests and layman”, founded in 1796 by Pietro Leonardi, including both men and women. He caught typhus and made a will, but his spiritual guide, Father G.B. Bertolini told him:”your time has not come. God expects great things from you.”. This great thing was founded in 1840 in two rooms, called the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy, dedicated to helping all suffering and necersity Carl Steeb financed and inspired this initiative together with the Veronese Luisa Poloni and then with Mother Vincenza. He was her confessor, confessor of the whole of Verona, this German with a very soft voice. From the two rooms, the Institute started to grow and is still growing in the third millenium with locations in Europe, Latin America and Africa. Carlo Steeb, who many called the Mother of the Sick, died after having withessed the Church of the Institute in Verona where he is buried. He was beatified by Pope Paul VI° in 1975.