Aloysius Gonzaga

Italian aristocrat and Jesuit seminarian and saint

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Lived 1568–1591, aged 23Italy
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    1568–1591
    Aged 23
Summary
Updated 2026-06-09

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.

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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.

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