High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Saint Luigi Orione (June 23, 1872 March 12, 1940) is an Italian saint. Luigi Giovanni Orione was born into a poor family at Pontecurone, in the Province of Alessandria, Piedmont on the Vigil of the feast day of the "Nativity of St. John the Baptist." He was named after Saint Aloysius Gonzaga and Saint John the Baptist. He was baptized the next day by Don Michele Cattaneo, a parish priest of Pontecurone. His father, Vittorio, was a street paver of few words and his mother, Carolina, was an energetic, pious, thrifty homemaker. Luigi Orione was a student at the Valdocco Oratory in Turin. He gained the attention of St. John Bosco, who numbered him among his favorite pupils. Since the age of thirteen, Luigi suffered from health problems. However, three years later, at age the age of sixteen, he was present at Don Bosco's death in Turin in 1888. Immediately upon his death, Luigi's ailments were miraculously cured.