June 21 is a feast of San Luis Gonzaga, patron of the Christian youth and protector of young students, who went through many misunderstandings and sufferings in the "luxury life" he had to experience, until he heard a "special call."

June 21 is a feast of San Luis Gonzaga, patron of the Christian youth and protector of young students, who went through many misunderstandings and sufferings in the "luxury life" he had to experience, until he heard a "special call."

San Luis Gonzaga was born in 1568 in Italy in a noble family. His mother, worried about the things of faith, consecrated him to the Virgin and made him baptize. While the father was only interested in the world's future world and that he was a soldier like him.

San Luis frequented the barracks a lot and there learned the importance of being brave, but also acquired a rough vocabulary. His tutor made the little one see that this language was rude, vulgar and blasphemous. So the boy never spoke again.

Little by little he grew up in faith and at nine he made a chastity vote. When he was thirteen he knows Bishop San Carlos Borromeo, who is impressed with Luis's wisdom and innocence and gives him the first communion.

Some historians claim that the environment that was lived in the nobility and society of that time was full of fraud, vice, crime and lust. So San Luis underwent a rigorous order and constant piety practices, without neglecting his responsibilities in court.

For his father's affairs he had to travel to Spain and in the Church of the Jesuits in Madrid heard a voice that said: "Luis, enters the company of Jesus." His mother took Luis's projects with joy, but Dad rode in anger and did not easily accept his son's vocational concern.

Later, after it was sent to various trips and it was given important charges, the father had to give in and wrote to the Jesuits telling him: "I send you what I love most in the world, a son in which the whole family had their hopes."

San Luis entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus. There he continued with his penance and mortifications that had already affected his health. Over time it became a model novice, remained faithful to the rules and always sought to be in the humblest trades. Sometimes, during recess or in the dining room, it fell into ecstasy.

At that time the population of Rome was affected by an epidemic of fever, the Jesuits opened a hospital where the members of the order attended. Luis began begging food for the sick and managed to take care of the dying until he contracted the disease.

On one occasion he fell into an arrobation and it was revealed that he would die in the eighth of Corpus Christi. With his eyes on the crucifix and the name of Jesus on his lips, he left for the Father's house around midnight, between June 20 and 21, with only 23 years of age.

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