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Saint Aloysius Gonzaga
Feast day: 21 June
An Italian marquis's heir who renounced his principality to become a Jesuit and died at twenty-three after nursing plague victims in Rome.
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Saint Francis Xavier
Feast day: 3 December
A Basque nobleman won for Christ by Ignatius of Loyola who baptised tens of thousands in India, the Moluccas and Japan and died in sight of China.
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Saint Ignatius of Loyola
Feast day: 31 July
A soldier wounded at Pamplona who converted while convalescing and founded the Jesuits, giving the Church the Spiritual Exercises.