Luigi Scrosoppi (4 August 1804 – 3 April 1884) was an Italian priest of the Catholic Church who founded the Sisters of Providence of Saint Cajetan of Thiene.

Scrosoppi established the Sisters of Providence of Saint Cajetan of Thiene and it was to receive the official approval of Pope Pius IX on 22 September 1871.

[1] On 22 August 2010, Scrosoppi was appointed patron saint of footballers by bishop Alois Schwarz at a church service in the Austrian parish of Pörtschach at Wörthersee in coordination with the Roman authorities and Andrea Bruno Mazzocato, the archbishop of Udine.

Schwarz, the Bishop of Gurk in Klagenfurt, supported the proposal in the appropriate Vatican section "Church and Sport" largely because soccer for youth is of great importance and meaning.

Peter Chungu Shitima was a student of the oratory of St. Philip Neri of Oudtshoorn, a town near the southern coast of South Africa.

In the night between 9 and 10 October 1996, the young man dreamed of Scrosoppi, and suddenly he felt he was cured, awakening, resuming his normal activity.

The case, examined at the Oudtshoorn Curia, was submitted to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints who, on July 1, 2000, promulgated in the presence of Pope John Paul II[5] the miracle decree for the "rapid, complete and lasting healing of Peter Chungu Shitima by polyineuritis and cachexia in positive HIV subject.