Saint ignatius de loyola biography of albert
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Ignatius of Loyola (Basque: Ignazio Loiolakoa; Spanish: Ignacio de Loyola; Latin: Ignatius de Loyola; c. 23 October 1491 – 31 July 1556) was a SpanishBasqueCatholic priest and theologian, who co-founded the religious order called the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and became its first Superior General at Paris in 1541. The Jesuit order served the Pope as missionaries, and they were bound by a vow of special obedience to the sovereign pontiff in regard to the missions. They therefore emerged as an important force during the time of the Catholic-Reformation.
Ignatius is remembered as a talented spiritual director. He recorded his method in a celebrated treatise called the Spiritual Exercises, a simple set of meditations, prayers, and other mental exercises, first published in 1548.
Ignatius was beatified in 1609, and then canonized, receiving the title of Saint on 12 March 1622. His feast day is celebrated on 31 July. He is the patron saint of the Basque provinces of Gipuzkoa
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Feast Day: July 31
Canonized: March 12, 1622
Beatified: July 27, 1609
Ignatius was born in 1491 to a noble family in the Basque country of Spain. He was the youngest of 13 children and was only seven when his mother died.
When he was 29 and fighting against the French who were attacking Pamplona, a cannonball shattered his leg. Ignatius spent a year in bed recovering from his wounds. When he was 30, Ignatius turned from working as a soldier to working as a missionary for God.
During that year, Ignatius read the Bible and about the lives of saints. In these books, he discovered new work. He would “find God in all things.” He would do everything “for the greater glory of God.” His actions, decisions, and plans would bring the good news of God’s love to others. He visited a monastery, where he took his military clothing and weapons and laid them before an image of the Blessed Mother. And at the age of 30, Ignatius went back to school to learn more about his faith. Soon, a group
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SAINT IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA
FOUNDER OF THE gemenskap OF JESUS by Rev. Alban Butler
a.d.1556.
THE conversion of many barbarous nations, several heretofore unknown to us, both in the most remote eastern and western hemisphere; the education of youth in learning and piety, the instruction of the ignorant, the improvement of all the sciences, and the reformation of the manners of a great part of Christendom, is the wonderful fruit of the zeal with which this glorious saint devoted han själv to labour in exalting the glory of God, and in spreading over the whole world that fire which Christ han själv came to kindle on earth. St. Ignatius was born in 1491, in the castle of Loyola, in Guipuscoa, a part of Biscay that reaches to the Pyrenean mountains. His father, Don Bertram, was Lord of Ognez and Loyola, head of one of the most ancient and noble families of that country. His mother, Mary Saez dem Balde, was not less illustrious bygd her extraction. They had three daughters and eight sons. The yo