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CHAPTER XL
To the Aventine.
231.-OSPEDALE DELTA CONSOLAZIONE-ST. ALOYSIUS,
MARTYR OF CHARITY.
On the south side of the Roman Forum, is a plain-looking
building known as the Ospedale della Consolazione—“ Hospital
of Our Lady of Consolation,” where St. Aloysius caught his last
illness in attending the plague-stricken. In the year 1591,
a terrible epidemic devastated Rome, and thousands were
swept into their graves. St. Aloysius was inflamed with the
holy desire to assist the plague-stricken, and by repeated
entreaties obtained from his Superiors the necessary leave. He
was sent to the Ospedale della Consolazione, where he was
indefatigable in his zeal and charity towards the poor sufferers,
making their beds, washing their sores, waiting on them with
•exquisite delicacy, catechizing them, cheering them and lifting
their thoughts to a better life. All were edified to see the young
Saint perform the most painful and loathsome offices of the
hospital. The pestilence being highly contagious several of the
Fathers died martyrs of charity, and Aloysius himself caught
the infection that carried him to his grave.
Blessed Rodolf Acquaviva, son of the Duke of Atri,
having made a vow at the age of sixteen to enter the Society
of Jesus, came to Rome in 1568 to request his uncle, Father
Claude Acquaviva (afterwards General of the Society), to obtain
the consent of Father General, and to overcome the opposition
-of the Duke, his father. He found Father Claude serving the
-sick in this same hospital.
St. John Baptist de Rossi, when a pupil of the Roman
College, used to invite his young companions to come and join
him in comforting and catechizing the sick in this home of
charity.
Following the south side of the Forum, as far as the ruins
of the temple of Augustus, we reach the Via di S. Teodoro,
which leads straight to the Aventine.
To the Aventine.
231.-OSPEDALE DELTA CONSOLAZIONE-ST. ALOYSIUS,
MARTYR OF CHARITY.
On the south side of the Roman Forum, is a plain-looking
building known as the Ospedale della Consolazione—“ Hospital
of Our Lady of Consolation,” where St. Aloysius caught his last
illness in attending the plague-stricken. In the year 1591,
a terrible epidemic devastated Rome, and thousands were
swept into their graves. St. Aloysius was inflamed with the
holy desire to assist the plague-stricken, and by repeated
entreaties obtained from his Superiors the necessary leave. He
was sent to the Ospedale della Consolazione, where he was
indefatigable in his zeal and charity towards the poor sufferers,
making their beds, washing their sores, waiting on them with
•exquisite delicacy, catechizing them, cheering them and lifting
their thoughts to a better life. All were edified to see the young
Saint perform the most painful and loathsome offices of the
hospital. The pestilence being highly contagious several of the
Fathers died martyrs of charity, and Aloysius himself caught
the infection that carried him to his grave.
Blessed Rodolf Acquaviva, son of the Duke of Atri,
having made a vow at the age of sixteen to enter the Society
of Jesus, came to Rome in 1568 to request his uncle, Father
Claude Acquaviva (afterwards General of the Society), to obtain
the consent of Father General, and to overcome the opposition
-of the Duke, his father. He found Father Claude serving the
-sick in this same hospital.
St. John Baptist de Rossi, when a pupil of the Roman
College, used to invite his young companions to come and join
him in comforting and catechizing the sick in this home of
charity.
Following the south side of the Forum, as far as the ruins
of the temple of Augustus, we reach the Via di S. Teodoro,
which leads straight to the Aventine.