Poppies (detail) - Watercolor 210510
colored A thought for the friends in the days of my name day.
San Luigi Gonzaga . Son of the Duke of Mantua, who was born 19 March 1568, his father raised him from infancy to arms, so that in five years already wearing a mini helmet and breastplate and a risk of being crushed by a cannon firing a shot. But 10 years Lewis had decided that his path was different: that through humility, the vow of chastity and a life dedicated to the next would have led him to God at 12, he received his First Communion from St. Charles Borromeo, on a visit to Brescia. He then decided to enter the Society of Jesus and to do that had to endure two years of struggle against the father. Now free to follow Christ, renounced his title and inheritance and entered the Jesuit Roman College, dedicating himself to the humble and the sick, standing out especially during the plague epidemic that struck Rome in 1590. At that time, carrying on his shoulders a dying man, was infected and died. It was 1591, he was only 23 years. (Future)
