Luigi Maria Monti, CFIC (24 July 1825 – 1 October 1900) was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Sons of the Immaculate Conception.

Monti formed a small group of craftsman and farmers at the store he managed devoted to the Sacred Heart.

[1] He and the other members of his group were charged with meeting to conspire against the Austrian forces who were in the area and in 1851 were jailed in Milan for ten weeks.

[3] Monti and his fellow nurse Cipriano Pezzini moved to Rome in 1858 where the two commenced work at the hospital of Santo Spirito.

In 1882 he met a Carthusian monk who came to see him at the hospital in Rome and at his request assumed care for his four parentless nephews; he opened a home for them at Saronno after he arrived there.

on 6 February 2001 and it allowed for Pope John Paul II to confirm her heroic virtue and name her as Venerable on 24 April 2001.

John Paul II approved the miracle on 12 April 2003 and later beatified Monti on 9 November 2003 in Saint Peter's Square.