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Memorial

Saint Aloysius Gonzaga

Feast day
June 21
Patron of
youth and students
Origin
Italian

Life

Aloysius Gonzaga renounced his inheritance as a prince to join the Jesuits. He died at twenty-three while nursing plague victims in Rome and is a model of youthful purity and devotion.

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