St. Aloysius Gonzaga

Catholic Saints

Augustine Institute

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🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Dr. Arielle Harms and Taylor Kemp share about the life of Aloysius (Luigi) Gonzaga. Raised by his father to be a soldier, an early awakening of his personal faith led him to renounce his familial right of succession and enter the newly formed Society of Jesus. As a Jesuit he soon realized that despite his radical service, bold evangelization, and strict prayers and asceticism, the only way to truly become holy was to relinquish control and allow his soul to be conquered by Christ.

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast on Catholic Saints. This podcast is produced by the Augustine Institute,
0:09.1	an Apostolate helping Catholics understand, live, and share their faith.
0:19.8	Hello everyone and welcome to Catholic Saints.
0:22.4	My name is Taylor Kemp, your host and the vice president of content here at the Augustin Institute.
0:26.8	And with me today is Dr. Aral Harms from our graduate school of theology who teaches in our past,
0:32.9	she is the director of our pastoral theology program.
0:35.9	Dr. Harms, it is great to have you back now on your
0:37.7	second episode of Catholic Saints. So glad to be here. Yes. Thank you. Today we are talking about
0:44.8	St. Aloysius, Gonzaga. I know very, very little about St. Aloysius. And in fact, I just
0:51.4	figured out maybe six months ago how to pronounce his name.
0:54.9	Because it's spelled Aloysius, which you just informed me came from Luigi.
1:00.7	Yes.
1:01.2	His, I mean, he's Italian and his actual name is Luigi.
1:05.9	Aloysius is a...
1:07.2	Man, that's a tough, like, transliteration from Italian to English.
1:13.3	Yeah, I wouldn't have gone with that.
1:15.0	It's more Latin than English, right?
1:17.2	So.
1:18.0	Language.
1:19.9	Aloysius.
1:20.6	I have a really quick story that has nothing to do with his witness of being a saint,
1:25.2	but it's still a funny story.
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