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St.
Aloysius Gonzaga
by William Hart McNichols, S.J.
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Aloysius
Gonzaga, a Jesuit scholastic, died in 1591 at the age of 23 caring
for the sick. He was from a princely family and was at one time
in the court of Phillip II of Spain. He renounced his inheritance
to enter the Society of Jesus. St. Robert Bellarmine was his spiritual
director, and he was strongly devoted to the Eucharist, interior
prayer and charitable service
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