Luigi Maria Monti
Luigi Maria Monti, CFIC (24 July 1825 – 1 October 1900) was an Italian Catholic religious brother 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 Lodovico Pavoni for a brief period of time.
The beatification cause for 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 St. Peter's Square on 9 November 2003.
Patron saint of Sons of the Immaculate Conception
In the Martyrology
- October 1 Blessed Luigi Maria Monti, religious of the Sons of the Immaculate Conception