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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.
Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian Jesuit and patron saint of Roman Catholic youth. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1585 but died of plague shortly before his ordination, having contracted the disease while nursing its victims. Learn more about his life.
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By Patrick Saint-Jean, SJ. 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, 2022 · (March 9, 1568 – June 21, 1591) Saint Aloysius Gonzaga’s Story. The Lord can make saints anywhere, even amid the brutality and license of Renaissance life. Florence was the “mother of piety” for Aloysius Gonzaga despite his exposure to a “society of fraud, dagger, poison, and lust.”
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Jun 21, 2015 · June 21 is the Feast Day of one of the most misunderstood saints in the Catholic church: St. Aloysius Gonzaga. A little history, then, may be in order to help us begin to understand this...
Aloysius Gonzaga (LuigiGonzaga, 1568-1591) gave up a privileged life and a princely inheritance tolive the vows of religious life even to the point of contacting the plaguebecause of his selfless care for people already sick with it. He was the eldestson of the Marquis of Castiglione, and heir to the family title.
