Luigi Maria Monti, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Luigi Maria Monti

Italian religious brother

Date of Birth: 24-Jul-1825

Place of Birth: Bovisio-Masciago, Lombardy, Italy

Date of Death: 01-Oct-1900

Profession: priest, nurse

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Blessed Luigi Maria Monti (24 July 1825 – 1 October 1900) was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Sons of the Immaculate Conception.
He was referred to as "Father" despite not being an ordained priest.
Monti served as a nurse for most of his life and aided the ill in the Santo Spirito hospital in Rome while he was there and also worked to tend to ill people during the Brescia cholera epidemic in 1855.
Monti also considered entering the religious life and joined the order of Saint Lodovico Pavoni for a brief period of time though became a religious of his own order later on.The beatification cause opened under Pope Pius XII in 1941 and he became titled as a Servant of God - the first stage in the process for sainthood.
Pope John Paul II named him as Venerable on 24 April 2001 on the account of his heroic virtue and later beatified him at Saint Peter's Square on 9 November 2003 on the account of a 1961 miracle he approved.