Camillians Fathers were brought to Upper Silesia in the early twentieth century to fight the rampant scourge of alcoholism. They settled in Tarnowskie Góry, where they built Saint John’s Infirmary, intended to the treatment of alcohol dependence. In addition to the hospital, the cloister and the church of Saint John the Baptist were erected. All the buildings form a compact complex, decorated in the neo-Gothic style.