Gonzaga, LUIGI — Chambers's Encyclopaedia

Gonzaga, LUIGI, known as ST ALOYSIUS, was born in the castle of Castiglione, near Brescia, 9th March 1568, and was educated at Florence, Mantua, and Rome. Renouncing his marquisate of Castiglione, in favour of his brother, he entered the Society of Jesus in 1585. At Rome during a visitation of the plague he gave himself up with wonderful self-devotion to the care of the sick; and, stricken by the malady, died 21st June 1591. He was beatified in 1621, and canonised in 1726. See the Life of St Aloysius Gonzaga, edited by E. H. Thompson (1867); the Italian Life by Cepari (trans. by Goldie, 1891); and Aubrey de Vere's Essays (1888).