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Aloysius, neo-Gothic, wood and original polychromy

Aloysius Gonzaga (Castiglione delle Stiviere (at Mantua), March 9 1568 – RomeJune 21 1591) (actually Luigi Gonzaga) is a young deceased Catholic Saints.

Immediately after his death, Aloysius was already considered a saint. Soon he was in the San Ignazio buried in Rome. Be skull was later transferred to the Aloysius Basilica in Castiglione delle stiviere. 14 years after his death, he was Pope Paul V blessed. In 1726 he was partnered with Stanislaus Kostka by paus Benedictus XIII canonized. In 1729 was he proclaimed patron of young students by the same Pope

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