Aloysius Gonzaga
Italian aristocrat and Jesuit seminarian and saint
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Updated 2026-05-29
Italian Jesuit who traded his aristocratic inheritance for nursing plague victims in 1580s Rome—and died doing it. Beatified and sainted decades later for the gesture.
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Aloysius de Gonzaga, SJ 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. He was beatified in 1605 and canonized in 1726.
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