Marco Luzzago

Fra' Marco Luzzago (23 June 1950 – 7 June 2022) was an Italian businessman who was the Lieutenant of the Grand Master and head of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, a Catholic lay religious order and sovereign subject of international law, from 8 November 2020 until his death in 2022.

Early life Luzzago was a member of a noble family, which can be traced back in the male line to 1360, from Brescia. An extinct branch of the family received the title of Count of Cesana from the Republic of Venice in 1678.

Luzzago completed his secondary education at the Liceo Scientifico Statale Annibale Calini, a Franciscan institute in Brescia, before studying medicine at the University of Padua and the University of Parma. and head of the library.

On 8 November 2020, a Council Complete of State elected Luzzago to the position of Lieutenant of the Grand Master for a period of one year. On 26 February 2022 Luzzago was received in audience by the Pope to discuss the reform. On 19 March 2022, the Order presented to the Pope two drafts of the new constitution, keeping the right to read them calmly. As of the day of Luzzago's death, Pope Francis had not stated the results of that readings.

During his tenure, Luzzago received the state visits of the President of Latvia Egils Levits (11 May 2021), the President of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier (25 October 2021), and Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Željko Komšić (17 January 2022).

In the face of Russian invasion of Ukraine, Luzzago accompanied the Pope at the penitential liturgy in St Peter's Basilica on 25 March of the same year.

Luzzago went on pilgrimage together with the Order to Assisi on 11 September 2021 after not being able to do so the previous year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Luzzago attended the Order's international pilgrimage to Lourdes from 28 April to 3 May 2022.

On 7 June 2022, Luzzago died at Villa Ciccolini, a hotel in Sforzacosta, near Macerata. The funeral was held on 14 June.