Today marks the death in 1591 of the Jesuit saint Aloysius de Gonzaga . The first-born of a numerous Italian aristocratic family . He grew up amid the violence and brutality of the Renaissance and witnessed the murder of two of his brothers. He gave up his inherited wealth and privileged status to work in as a volunteer in Jesuit hospital i Rome among the sick and dying of a major epidemic. He became infected, and died aged 23 . The mystic Carmelite , Maria Magdalena de Pazzi had a vision of him on 4 April 1600. She described him as radiant in glory because of his “interior works,” a hidden martyr for his great love of God. For his compassion and courage , Aloysius has become a patron saint of epidemic suffers and their carers.
The noble Jesuit
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