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Aloisio Gonzaga (20 April 1494 – 19 July 1549) was an Italian condottiero. Early life. Usually known as Aloisio, other sources call him Aluigi, Loysio, Luigi or Luigi Alessandro. He was the sixth son of another condottiero, Rodolfo Gonzaga and his wife Caterina Pico . Biography.
Aloysius de Gonzaga (Italian: Luigi Gonzaga; 9 March 1568 – 21 June 1591) was an Italian aristocrat who became a member of the Society of Jesus. While still a student at the Roman College , he died as a result of caring for the victims of a serious epidemic.
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Like many saints in the Catholic Church, Aloysius Gonzaga gave his life for the mission. Born on March 9, 1568, in Castiglione delle Stiviere to an Italian aristocratic family, young Aloysius left everything behind to join the Society of Jesus.
Jun 21, 2015 · On March 9, 1568, in the castle of Castiglione delle Stivieri, in Lombardy, Luigi Gonzaga was born into a branch of one of the most powerful families in Renaissance Italy.
St. Aloysius Gonzaga (born March 9, 1568, Castiglione delle Stiviere, Republic of Venice [Italy]—died June 21, 1591, Rome; canonized 1726; feast day June 21) was an Italian Jesuit and patron saint of Roman Catholic youth.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Rome, June 21, 1591. The firstborn of Ferrante Gonzaga, Marquis of Castiglione and Prince of the Empire, and Marta Tana Santena, Aloysius grew up amid the brutality and license of Renaissance society, which witnessed the murder of two of his brothers.
Aloysius Gonzaga (Luigi Gonzaga, 1568-1591) gave up a privileged life and a princely inheritance to live the vows of religious life even to the point of contacting the plague because of his selfless care for people already sick with it.
