# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/aloysius-gonzaga
# Generated: 2026-09-01T04:35:33.949Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/aloysius-gonzaga"
name: "Aloysius Gonzaga"
slug: "aloysius-gonzaga"
description: "An Italian nobleman who walked away from wealth to join the Jesuits, then died at twenty-three nursing plague victims in Rome — a choice that made him a saint a century later."
tagline: "Italian aristocrat and Jesuit seminarian and saint"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Collection_Motais_de_Narbonne_-_Saint_Louis_de_Gonzague_adorant_le_crucifix_-_Mazzanti.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IT"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1568-03-09"
deathDate: "1591-06-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.621675076403849
  historical:           22.369664
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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  - name: "Early Modern Era"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born into aristocracy on 9 March 1568, Aloysius de Gonzaga traded titles for the Society of Jesus. While studying at the Roman College, he threw himself into caring for those struck by a serious epidemic tearing through the city. The work killed him on 21 June 1591, still a student, still young. The Church beatified him in 1605 and declared him a saint in 1726, long after the epidemic had passed into memory.