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As a former soldier, Ignatius paid particular attention to the spiritual formation of his recruits and recorded his method in the ''[[Spiritual Exercises]]'' (1548). In time, the method has become known as [[Ignatian spirituality]]. He was [[beatified]] in 1609 and was [[canonized]] as a saint on 12 March 1622. His feast day is celebrated on 31 July. He is the [[patron saint]] of the [[Basque Country (greater region)|Basque]] provinces of [[Gipuzkoa]] and [[Biscay]] as well as of the Society of Jesus. He was declared patron saint of all spiritual retreats by [[Pope Pius XI]] in 1922.
As a former soldier, Ignatius paid particular attention to the spiritual formation of his recruits and recorded his method in the ''[[Spiritual Exercises]]'' (1548). In time, the method has become known as [[Ignatian spirituality]]. He was [[beatified]] in 1609 and was [[canonized]] as a saint on 12 March 1622. His feast day is celebrated on 31 July. He is the [[patron saint]] of the [[Basque Country (greater region)|Basque]] provinces of [[Gipuzkoa]] and [[Biscay]] as well as of the Society of Jesus. He was declared patron saint of all spiritual retreats by [[Pope Pius XI]] in 1922.

==Early life==
'''Ignatius of Loyola''' was born '''Iñigo López de Oñaz y Loyola'''<!-- per lede and infobox; more accurate considering Spanish naming styles and parents' names --> in the castle at Loyola, in the municipality of [[Azpeitia]], Gipuzkoa, in the [[Basque Country (greater region)|Basque region of Spain]].<!-- No "Basque Country" in the 15th century --><ref name="cathenc">{{Cite CE1913| wstitle=St._Ignatius_Loyola|title=St. Ignatius Loyola |author=John Hungerford Pollen |author-link=John Hungerford Pollen (Jesuit) |url=https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07639c.htm| access-date=28 June 2008}}</ref> His parents, Don Beltrán Ibáñez de Oñaz y Loyola and Doña María (or Marina) Sáenz de Licona y Balda, who were of the minor nobility,<ref>{{Cite book|last=Purcell|first=Mary|title=The First Jesuit|publisher=Image Books edition|year=1965|isbn=|location=USA|pages=22}}</ref> from the clan of Loyola, were involved in the [[War of the Bands|Basque war of the bands]]. Their [[manor house]] was demolished on the orders of the King of Castile in 1456 for their depredations in Gipuzkoa, with Iñigo's paternal grandfather being expelled to Andalusia by [[Henry IV of Castile|Henry IV]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Orella|first=Jose Luis|date=2013|title=Territorio y Sociedad en la Gipuzkoa Medieval: Los Parientes Mayores|lang=es|trans-title=Territory and Society in Medieval Gipuzkoa: The Elders|url=http://www.ingeba.org/lurralde/lurranet/lur36/36orella.pdf|journal=Lurralde: Investigación y espacio|volume=36|pages=100–101|issn=0211-5891}}</ref> Íñigo was the youngest of their thirteen children. Their eldest son, Juan Pérez, had soldiered in forces commanded by [[Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba]], but died fighting in the [[Italian Wars]] (1494–1559).<ref name=Brodrick>[https://books.google.com/books?id=I1IPAAAAMAAJ&q=Ignatius+of+Loyola Brodrick SJ, James. ''Saint Ignatius Loyola: The Pilgrim Years'', New York. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956, p. 28]</ref>
[[File:Santuario De Loyola, Basque Country, Spain.jpg|thumb|left|250px|The [[Sanctuary of Loyola]], in [[Azpeitia]], built atop the birthplace of the saint.]]
He was baptized "Íñigo" on honour of [[Íñigo of Oña]], Abbot of [[Oña]]; the name also is a medieval Basque diminutive for "My little one".<ref name="cathenc"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.euskaltzaindia.org/index.php?option=com_eoda&Itemid=191&lang=es&testua=eneko&view=izenak|title=Nombres: Eneko|publisher=Euskaltzaindia (The Royal Academy of the Basque Language)|access-date=23 April 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110164023/http://www.euskaltzaindia.org/index.php?option=com_eoda&Itemid=191&lang=es&testua=eneko&view=izenak|archive-date=10 November 2013|url-status=dead}} Article in Spanish</ref> It is not clear when he began using the Latin name "Ignatius" instead of his baptismal name "Íñigo".<ref name="Verd1">{{cite journal|last=Verd|first=Gabriel María|title=El "Íñigo" de San Ignacio de Loyola|journal=Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu|volume=45|pages=95–128|publisher=Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu|location=Roma|year=1976|issn=0037-8887|language=es}}</ref> Historian Gabriel María Verd says that Íñigo did not intend to change his name, but rather adopted a name which he believed was a simple variant of his own, for use in France and Italy where it was better understood.<ref name="Verd2">{{cite journal|last=Verd |first=Gabriel María|title=De Iñigo a Ignacio. El cambio de nombre en San Ignacio de Loyola|journal=Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu|volume=60 |pages=113–160|publisher=Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu |location=Roma|year=1991|issn=0037-8887|language=es|quote=That St. Ignatius of Loyola's name was changed is a known fact, but it cannot be said that it is widely known in the historiography of the saint — neither the characteristics of the names Iñigo and Ignacio nor the reasons for the change. It is first necessary to make clear the meaning of the names; they are distinct, despite the persistently held opinion in onomastic (dictionaries) and popular thought. In Spain Ignacio and Iñigo are at times used interchangeably just as if they were Jacobo and Jaime. With reference to the name Iñigo, it is fitting to give some essential notions to eliminate ambiguities and help understand what follows. This name first appears on the Ascoli brome (dated November 18, 90 BC), in a list of Spanish knights belonging to a Turma salluitana or Saragossan. It speaks of Elandus Enneces f[ilius], and according to Menéndez Pidal, the final «s» is the «z» of Spanish patronymics and could be nothing other than Elando Iñiguez. It is an ancestral Hispanic name. Ignacio, on the other hand, is a Latin name. In classical Latin, there is Egnatius with an initial E. It appears only twice with an initial I (Ignatius) in the sixty volumes of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. This late Latin and Greek form prevailed. In the classical period, Egnatius was used as a nomen (gentilitial name) and not as a praenomen (first name) or cognomen (surname), except in very rare cases. (...) The most important conclusion, perhaps unexpected, but not unknown, is that St. Ignatius did not change his name. That is to say, he did not intend to change it. What he did was to adopt for France and Italy a name which he believed was a simple variant of his own, and which was more acceptable among foreigners.... If he had remained in Spain, he would have, without doubt, remained Iñigo.}}</ref> Íñigo adopted the surname "de Loyola" in reference to the Basque village of Loyola where he was born.<ref name="encyc brit">{{Cite web|title=Saint Ignatius of Loyola: Biography, Patron Saint Of, Feast Day, & Facts|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/St-Ignatius-of-Loyola|access-date=20 June 2021|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en}}</ref>

Soon after the birth of Íñigo, his mother died. Maternal care fell to María de Garín, the wife of the local blacksmith.<ref>''Ignatius of Loyola: The Psychology of a Saint''; {{ill|William W. Meissner|lt=W.W. Meissner S.J. M.D.|de|William Walter Meissner}}, Yale University Press, 1992. p. 9.</ref> In 1498, his second eldest brother, Martin, heir to the estate, took his new wife to live in the castle, and she became mistress of the household. Later, the seven-year-old boy Íñigo returned to Casa Loyola. Anticipating his possible ecclesiastic career, Don Beltrán had Íñigo [[tonsure]]d.<ref name=Brodrick/>

=== Military career ===
[[File:Ignatius of Loyola (militant).jpg|thumb|Ignatius in his armour, in a 16th-century painting]]
[[File:Saint Ignatius of Loyola's Vision of Christ and God the Father at La Storta LACMA M.89.59.jpg|thumbnail|''Saint Ignatius of Loyola's Vision of Christ and God the Father at La Storta'' by [[Domenichino]]<ref name="domenichino painting">{{Cite web |url=http://collections.lacma.org/node/224587 |title=Saint Ignatius of Loyola's Vision of Christ and God the Father at La Storta |date=30 November 2016 |website=lacma.org |publisher=Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)}}</ref>]]

Instead, Íñigo became a [[Page (occupation)|page]] in the service of a relative, Juan Velázquez de Cuéllar, treasurer (''contador mayor'') of the kingdom of [[Crown of Castile|Castile]]. During his time in the household of Don Velázquez, Íñigo took up dancing, fencing, gambling, the pursuit of the young ladies, and duelling.<ref name=Brodrick/> Íñigo was keen on military exercises and was driven by a desire for fame. He patterned his life after the stories of [[El Cid]], the [[Round Table|knights of Camelot]], ''[[The Song of Roland]]'' and other tales of romantic chivalry.<ref>Ironically, the ''Song of Roland'' has Roland slain by [[Moors]], when historically his death was at the hands of Basques like Íñigo himself.</ref>

He joined the army at seventeen, and according to one biographer, he strutted about "with his cape flying open to reveal his tight-fitting hose and boots; a sword and dagger at his waist".<ref name="sword">{{cite book|author=Richard Cohen|title=By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions|year=2003|publisher=Modern Library Paperbacks}}</ref>{{page needed|date=July 2020}} According to another he was "a fancy dresser, an expert dancer, a womanizer, sensitive to insult, and a rough punkish swordsman who used his privileged status to escape prosecution for violent crimes committed with his priest brother at carnival time."<ref name="Traub">{{Cite web |url=http://www.xavier.edu/mission-identity/heritage-tradition/who-was-St-Ignatius-Loyola.cfm |title=Biography of St. Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556): The Founder of the Jesuits |author1=George Traub |author2=Debra Mooney |publisher=Xavier University |access-date=14 October 2016 |archive-date=28 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170828012052/http://www.xavier.edu/mission-identity/heritage-tradition/who-was-St-Ignatius-Loyola.cfm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 1509, aged 18, Íñigo took up arms for [[Antonio Manrique de Lara, 2nd Duke of Nájera]]. His diplomacy and leadership qualities earned him the title "servant of the court", and made him very useful to the Duke.<ref>In Spanish the title was "Gentilhombre", but this should not be understood as synonymous with the English term ''gentleman'', which denotes a man of good family. See Thomas Rochford, [https://web.archive.org/web/20071015224602/http://sjweb.info/jesuits/ignatius.cfm title=St. Ignatius Loyola: the pilgrim and man of prayer who founded the Society of Jesus "St. Ignatius Loyola: the pilgrim and man of prayer who founded the Society of Jesus"], accessed 15 November 2007.]</ref>
Under the Duke's leadership, Íñigo participated in many battles without injury. However at the [[List of battles of the Italian Wars#Pampeluna|Battle of Pamplona]] on 20 May 1521 he was gravely injured when [[Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre#1521 French-Navarrese expedition|a French-Navarrese expedition force]] stormed the fortress of Pamplona, and a [[round shot|cannonball]] ricocheting off a nearby wall canonizing his right leg.<ref name="j1">{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/lifeofstignatius01mari/lifeofstignatius01mari_djvu.txt|title=The Life of St. Ignatius Loyola, Founder of the Jesuits|access-date=1 June 2019|last=Mariani|first=Antonio|publisher=Thomas Richardson}}</ref>
Íñigo was returned to his father's castle in Loyola, where, in an era before [[anesthetic]]s, he underwent several surgical operations to repair the leg, with his bones set and rebroken. In the end, the operations left his right leg shorter than the other. He would limp for the rest of his life, with his military career over.<ref name=Traub/>

===Religious conversion and visions===
[[File:Manresa, Cova de Sant Ignasi-PM 58510.jpg|thumb|left|[[Manresa]], Chapel in the [[Cave of Saint Ignatius]] where Ignatius practiced [[asceticism]] and conceived his ''Spiritual Exercises'']]
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While recovering from surgery, Íñigo underwent a spiritual conversion and discerned a call to the religious life. In order to divert the weary hours of convalescence, he asked for the romances of chivalry, his favourite reading, but there were none in the castle, and instead his beloved sister-in-law, Magdalena de Araoz brought him the lives of Christ and of the saints.<ref name="cathenc" /><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Dyckman|first1=Katherine Marie|title=The Spiritual Exercises Reclaimed: Uncovering Liberating Possibilities for Women|last2=Garvin|first2=Mary|last3=Liebert|first3=Elizabeth|publisher=Paulist Press|year=2001|isbn=9780809140435|location=Mahwah, New Jersey|pages=30}}</ref>

The religious work which most particularly struck him was the ''[[Vita Christi|De Vita Christi]]'' of [[Ludolph of Saxony]].<ref>''De Vita Christi'' is a commentary on the Gospels, using extracts from the works of over sixty [[Church Fathers]], and particularly quoting from [[Pope Gregory I|St Gregory the Great]], [[St Basil]], [[St Augustine]] and the [[Venerable Bede]]. This work took Ludolph forty years to complete.</ref> This book would influence his whole life, inspiring him to devote himself to God and follow the example of [[Francis of Assisi]] and other great monks. It also inspired his method of meditation, since Ludolph proposes that the reader place himself mentally at the scene of the Gospel story, visualising the crib at the Nativity, etc. This type of meditation, known as Simple Contemplation, was the basis for the method that Ignatius outlined in his ''[[Spiritual Exercises]]''.<ref>Sr Mary Immaculate Bodenstedt, "The Vita Christi of Ludolphus the Carthusian", a Dissertation, Washington: Catholic University of America Press 1944 British Library Catalogue No. Ac2692.y/29.(16).</ref><ref>"The Vita Christi" by Charles Abbot Conway ''Analecta Cartusiana'' 34</ref><ref>"Ludolph's Life of Christ" by [[Henry James Coleridge|Father Henry James Coleridge]] in ''[[The Month]]'' Vol. 17 (New Series VI) July–December 1872, pp. 337–370</ref>

Aside from dreaming about imitating the saints in his readings, Íñigo was still wandering off in his mind about what "he would do in service to his king and in honour of the royal lady he was in love with". Cautiously he came to realize the after-effect of both kinds of his dreams. He experienced desolation and dissatisfaction when the romantic heroism dream was over, but, the saintly dream ended with much joy and peace. It was the first time he learned about [[Discernment in Christianity|discernment]].<ref name="Traub" />

After he had recovered sufficiently to walk again, Íñigo resolved to begin a pilgrimage to the [[Holy Land]] to "kiss the earth where our Lord had walked",<ref name="Traub" /> and to do stricter [[penance]]s.<ref name="Heydt"/> He thought that his plan was confirmed by a vision of the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus he experienced one night, which resulted in much consolation to him.<ref name="Heydt">{{cite web |url=http://www.xavier.edu/jesuitresource/jesuit-a-z/Mary,-the-Hidden-Catalyst-Reflections-from-an-Ignatian-Pilgrimage-to-Spain-and-Rome.cfm |title=Mary, the Hidden Catalyst: Reflections from an Ignatian Pilgrimage to Spain and Rome |author1=Margo J. Heydt |author2=Sarah J. Melcher |date=May 2008 |publisher=Xavier University|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170830104232/http://www.xavier.edu/jesuitresource/jesuit-a-z/Mary,-the-Hidden-Catalyst-Reflections-from-an-Ignatian-Pilgrimage-to-Spain-and-Rome.cfm |archive-date=30 August 2017 }}</ref> In March 1522, he visited the Benedictine monastery of [[Santa Maria de Montserrat]]. There, he carefully examined his past [[sins]], [[Confession (Catholic Church)|confessed]], gave his fine clothes to the poor he met, wore a "garment of sack-cloth", then hung his sword and dagger at [[Virgin of Montserrat|the Virgin]]'s altar during an overnight vigil at the shrine.<ref name="cathenc" />

From Montserrat he walked on to the nearby town of [[Manresa]] ([[Catalonia]]), where he lived for about a year, begging for his keep, and then eventually doing chores at a local hospital in exchange for food and lodging. For several months he spent much of his time praying in a [[Cave of Saint Ignatius|cave nearby]] where he practised rigorous [[asceticism]], praying for seven hours a day, and formulating the fundamentals of his ''Spiritual Exercises''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sabau |first=Antoaneta |author-link=Antoaneta Sabău |url=https://sierra.ceu.edu/search?/aSabau,+Antoaneta/asabau+antoaneta/-3,-1,0,B/frameset&FF=asabau+antoaneta&1,1,?save=b1135853 |title=Translation and identity in the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola |date=2008 |publisher=Central European University |series=CEU Medieval Studies Department |location=Budapest |language=English}}</ref><ref name=cave>{{cite web|title=The Cave an artistic heritage|url=http://www.covamanresa.cat/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=45&Itemid=65&lang=en|website=The Cave. Place of pilgrimage and worship|access-date=4 August 2014}}</ref>

Íñigo also experienced a series of visions in full daylight while at the hospital. These repeated visions appeared as "a form in the air near him and this form gave him much consolation because it was exceedingly beautiful ... it somehow seemed to have the shape of a serpent and had many things that shone like eyes, but were not eyes. He received much delight and consolation from gazing upon this object ... but when the object vanished he became disconsolate".<ref>[[Jean Lacouture]], ''Jesuits, A Multibiography'', Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1995, p. 18.</ref> He came to interpret this vision as diabolical in nature.<ref>{{cite book |last = Demski | first = Eric |title=Living by the Sword |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YkH2AwAAQBAJ |publisher=[[Trafford Publishing]] |location=[[Bloomington, Indiana]] |year=2014 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=YkH2AwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Although+beautiful+and+seemingly+heaven-sent,+Ignatius+determined+this+vision+diabolical+in+nature.+Ignatius+ignored+the+vision,+and+continued+to+pray969%22&pg=PA289 289] |isbn=978-1-490-73607-5}}</ref>


==Period of studies==
==Period of studies==

Revision as of 16:46, 17 October 2023

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is de Oñaz and the second or maternal family name is Loyola.

Saint

Ignatius of Loyola

SJ
Ignatius of Loyola (c. 16th-century portrait)
Priest, founder
BornIñigo López de Oñaz y Loyola
(1491-10-23)23 October 1491
Azpeitia, Gipuzkoa, Crown of Castile
Died31 July 1556(1556-07-31) (aged 64)
Rome, Papal States
Venerated in
Beatified27 July 1609, Rome, Papal States, by Pope Paul V
Canonized12 March 1622, Rome, Papal States, by Pope Gregory XV
Feast31 July
Attributes
PatronageSociety of Jesus; soldiers; spiritual retreats; Biscay; Gipuzkoa;[2] the Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland, the Diocese of Antwerp, Belgium; Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Junín, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Rome, Italy; accidents and injuries.
Influences
Major worksSpiritual Exercises
Signature

Ignatius of Loyola SJ (Template:Lang-eu; Template:Lang-es; Template:Lang-la; born Íñigo López de Oñaz y Loyola; c. 23 October 1491[3] – 31 July 1556), venerated as Saint Ignatius of Loyola, was a Spanish Catholic priest and theologian, who, with six companions, founded the religious order of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), and became its first Superior General, in Paris in 1541.[4]

Ignatius envisioned the purpose of the Society of Jesus to be missionary work and teaching. In addition to the vows of chastity, obedience and poverty of other religious orders in the church, Loyola instituted a fourth vow for Jesuits of obedience to the Pope, to engage in projects ordained by the pontiff.[5] Jesuits were instrumental in leading the Counter-Reformation.[6]

As a former soldier, Ignatius paid particular attention to the spiritual formation of his recruits and recorded his method in the Spiritual Exercises (1548). In time, the method has become known as Ignatian spirituality. He was beatified in 1609 and was canonized as a saint on 12 March 1622. His feast day is celebrated on 31 July. He is the patron saint of the Basque provinces of Gipuzkoa and Biscay as well as of the Society of Jesus. He was declared patron saint of all spiritual retreats by Pope Pius XI in 1922.

Period of studies

In September 1523, Íñigo made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land with the aim of settling there. He remained there from 3 to 23 September but was sent back to Europe by the Franciscans.[7]

He returned to Barcelona and at the age of 33 attended a free public grammar school in preparation for university entrance. He went on to the University of Alcalá,[8] where he studied theology and Latin from 1526 to 1527.[9]

There he encountered a number of devout women who had been called before the Inquisition. These women were considered alumbrados – a group linked in their zeal and spirituality to Franciscan reforms, but they had incurred mounting suspicion from the administrators of the Inquisition. Once when Íñigo was preaching on the street, three of these devout women began to experience ecstatic states. "One fell senseless, another sometimes rolled about on the ground, another had been seen in the grip of convulsions or shuddering and sweating in anguish." The suspicious activity took place while Íñigo had preached without a degree in theology. As a result, he was singled out for interrogation by the Inquisition, but was later released.[10]

Following these risky activities, Íñigo (by this time, he had changed his name to Ignatius, probably to make it more acceptable to other Europeans) [11] adopted the surname "de Loyola" in reference to the Basque village of Loyola where he was born.[12] moved to France to study at the University of Paris. He attended first the ascetic Collège de Montaigu, moving on to the Collège Sainte-Barbe to study for a master's degree.[13]

He arrived in France at a time of anti-Protestant turmoil which had forced John Calvin to flee France. Very soon after, Ignatius had gathered around him six companions, all of them fellow students at the university.[14] They were the Spaniards Alfonso Salmeron, Diego Laynez, and Nicholas Bobadilla, with the Portuguese Simão Rodrigues, the Basque, Francis Xavier, and Peter Faber, a Savoyard, the latter two becoming his first companions,[15] and his closest associates in the foundation of the future Jesuit order.[16]

"On the morning of the 15th of August, 1534, in the chapel of church of Saint Peter, at Montmartre, Loyola and his six companions, of whom only one was a priest, met and took upon themselves the solemn vows of their lifelong work."[17]

Ignatius gained a Magisterium from the University of Paris at the age of forty-three in 1535. In later life he would often be called "Master Ignatius" because of this.[17]

Foundation of the Jesuit order

In 1539, with Peter Faber and Francis Xavier, Ignatius formed the Society of Jesus, which was approved in 1540 by Pope Paul III. He was chosen as the first Superior General of the order and invested with the title of "Father General" by the Jesuits.[12]

Ignatius sent his companions on missions across Europe to create schools, colleges, and seminaries. Juan de Vega, then ambassador of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor in Rome, met Ignatius there and having formed a good impression of the Jesuits, invited them to travel with him to his new appointment as Viceroy of Sicily. As a result, a Jesuit college was opened in Messina, which proved a success, so that its rules and methods were later copied in subsequent colleges.[18] In a letter to Francis Xavier before his departure to India in 1541, Ignatius famously used the Latin phrase "Ite, inflammate omnia", meaning, "Go, set the world on fire", a phrase used in the Jesuit order to this day.[19]

With the assistance of his personal secretary, Juan Alfonso de Polanco, Ignatius wrote the Jesuit Constitutions, which were adopted in 1553. They created a centralised organisation of the order,[20][21] and stressed absolute self-denial and obedience to the Pope and to superiors in the Church hierarchy. This was summarised in the motto perinde ac cadaver – "as if a dead body",[22] meaning that a Jesuit should be as emptied of ego as is a corpse.[23] However the overarching Jesuit principle became: Ad maiorem Dei gloriam ("for the greater glory of God").[citation needed]

Death and canonization

Ignatius died in Rome on 31 July 1556, probably of the "Roman Fever", a severe variant of malaria which was endemic in Rome throughout medieval history. An autopsy revealed that he also had kidney and bladder stones, a probable cause of the abdominal pains he suffered from in later life.[24][page needed]

The anatomist Matteo Colombo was present at the necropsy of St. Ignatius. He describes the results in his De re anatomica libre XV:

I have taken out innumerable stones with my own hands, with various colors found in the kidneys, in the lungs, in the liver, and in the portal vein. For I saw stones in the ureters, in the bladder, in the colon, in the hemorrhoidal veins as well as in the umbilicus. Also in the gall bladder I found stones of various shapes and colors.

— Matthew Colombo, De re anatomica libre XV[25]

From the facts presented, the exact cause of death cannot be established. The stones mentioned in the kidneys, ureters, urinary bladder and gall bladder appear to indicate nephrolithiasis and cholelithiasis. The so-called stones in the veins appear to be thrombosed hemorrhoids. Those mentioned in the colon, liver, and lungs suggest the possibility of a malignant gastro-intestinal growth with metastases to the liver and lungs. Because of the inadequacy of the protocols of the sixteenth century, the exact final anatomical diagnosis on the autopsy of Ignatius cannot be established beyond doubt.[25]

His body was dressed in his priestly robes and placed in a wooden coffin and buried in the crypt of the Maria della Strada Church on 1 August 1556. In 1568 the church was demolished and replaced with the Church of the Gesù. Ignatius' remains were reinterred in the new church in a new coffin.[26]

Ignatius was beatified by Pope Paul V on 27 July 1609, and canonized by Pope Gregory XV on 12 March 1622.[27] His feast day is celebrated annually on 31 July, the day he died. He is venerated as the patron saint of Catholic soldiers, the Military Ordinariate of the Philippines, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore,[28] in his native Basque Country, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Antwerp, Belo Horizonte, Junín, and Rome.

Legacy

Numerous institutions across the world are named for him, including many educational institutions and Ateneo Universities institutions in the Philippines.

In 1852, Loyola University Maryland was the first university in the United States to bear his name.

In 1949 he was the subject of a Spanish biographical film Loyola, the Soldier Saint starring Rafael Durán in the role of Ignatius.[citation needed]

In 2016, he was the subject of a Filipino film, Ignacio de Loyola, in which he was portrayed by Andreas Muñoz.[29]

Ignatius of Loyola is honoured in the Church of England and in the Episcopal Church on 31 July.[30][31]

The Saint Ignatius de Loyola Catholic Church, built in 1905 in El Paso, Texas, is named for him.

Genealogy

Original shield of Oñaz-Loyola.

Shield of Oñaz-Loyola

The Shield of Oñaz-Loyola is a symbol of the Ignatius family's Oñaz lineage, and is used by many Jesuit institutions around the world. As the official colours of the Loyola family are maroon and gold,[32] the Oñaz shield consists of seven maroon bars going diagonally from the upper left to the lower right on a goldfield. The bands were granted by the King of Spain to each of the Oñaz brothers, in recognition of their bravery in battle. The Loyola shield features a pair of rampant gray wolves flanking each side of a cooking pot. The wolf was a symbol of nobility, while the entire design represented the family's generosity towards their military followers. According to legend, wolves had enough to feast on after the soldiers had eaten. Both shields were combined as a result of the intermarriage of the two families in 1261.[33][34] Former coat of arms of the Argentine city, Junín, Buenos Aires used until 1941 bore Loyola shield under the Sun of May and surrounded by laurel wreath.

Lineage

Villoslada [es; eu] established the following detailed genealogy of Ignatius of Loyola:[3]

Lineage
García López de Oñaz
Lope de Oñaz
López García de OñazInés, dame of
Loyola (~1261)
Inés de Oñaz y Loyola
(~end of the 13th century)		Juan Pérez
Juan Pérez
Gil López de Oñaz5 other brothers
(see – battle of Beotibar)
Beltrán Yáñez
(el Ibáñez) de Loyola		Ochanda Martínez de
Leete from Azpeitia
Lope García
de Lazcano		Sancha Ibáñez
de Loyola
Sancha Pérez de Iraeta
(+1473)		Juan Pérez de LoyolaMaria BeltrancheElviraEmiliaJuanecha
Don Beltrán Yáñez
(vel Ibáñez)
de Oñaz y Loyola
(~ 1507)		Doña Marina Sáenz
(vel Sánchez) de Licona
Sancha Ibáñez
de Loyola		Magdalena de AraozOchoa Pérez
de Loyola		Pero López
de Oñaz
y Loyola		Juaniza
(vel Joaneiza)
de Loyola		Maria Beltrán de LoyolaJuan Pérez de Loyola
Juan Beltrán
de Loyola		Beltrán de LoyolaHernando de LoyolaMagdalena de LoyolaPetronila de LoyolaIñigo López de Loyola
Notes:

Martín García Óñez de Loyola, soldier and Governor of Chile killed by Mapuches at the Battle of Curalaba, is likely Ignatius's nephew.[35]

  • Tomb of Saint Ignatius, c. 1675
    Tomb of Saint Ignatius, c. 1675
  • Apotheosis of Saint Ignatius
    Apotheosis of Saint Ignatius
  • Portrait by Pieter Paul Rubens
    Portrait by Pieter Paul Rubens
  • Visions of Ignatius, 1617–18, Peter Paul Rubens
    Visions of Ignatius, 1617–18, Peter Paul Rubens
  • Virgin Mary with Infant Jesus and Her Fifteen Mysteries. Bottom center: Ignatius of Loyola (left) and Francis Xavier (right)
    Virgin Mary with Infant Jesus and Her Fifteen Mysteries. Bottom center: Ignatius of Loyola (left) and Francis Xavier (right)
  • The journeys of Ignatius of Loyola at different times
    The journeys of Ignatius of Loyola at different times
  • A page from Spiritual Exercises
    A page from Spiritual Exercises

Bibliography

  • The Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius, TAN Books, 2010. ISBN 978-0-89555-153-5
  • Ignatius of Loyola, Spiritual Exercises, London, 2012. limovia.net ISBN 978-1-78336-012-3
  • Loyola, (St.) Ignatius (1964). The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. Anthony Mottola. Garden City: Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-02436-5.
  • Loyola, (St.) Ignatius (1900). Joseph O'Conner (ed.). The Autobiography of St. Ignatius. New York: Benziger Brothers. OCLC 1360267. For information on the O'Conner and other translations, see notes in A Pilgrim's Journey: The Autobiography of Ignatius of Loyola pp. 11–12.
  • Loyola, (St.) Ignatius (1992). John Olin (ed.). The Autobiography of St. Ignatius Loyola, with Related Documents. New York: Fordham University Press. ISBN 0-8232-1480-X.

See also

References

  1. ^ Lesser Feasts and Fasts 2018. Church Publishing, Inc. 2019. ISBN 978-1-64065-235-4.
  2. ^ "Patron Saint".
  3. ^ a b García Villoslada, Ricardo (1986). San Ignacio de Loyola: Nueva biografía (in Spanish). La Editorial Católica. ISBN 84-220-1267-7. We deduce that, (...), Iñigo de Loyola should have been born before 23 October 1491.
  4. ^ Idígoras Tellechea, José Ignacio (1994). "When was he born? His nurse's account". Ignatius of Loyola: The Pilgrim Saint. Chicago: Loyola University Press. p. 45. ISBN 0-8294-0779-0.
  5. ^ Ignatius of Loyola (1970). The Constitutions of the Society of Jesus. Translated by Ganss, George E. Institute of Jesuit Sources. p. 249 [No. 529]. ISBN 9780912422206. The entire meaning of this fourth vow of obedience to the pope was and is in regard to the missions ... this obedience is treated: in everything which the sovereign pontiff commands.
  6. ^ Nugent, Donald (1974). Ecumenism in the Age of the Reformation: The Colloquy of Poissy. Harvard University Press. p. 189. ISBN 0-674-23725-0.
  7. ^ Twelve years later, standing before the Pope with his companions, Ignatius again proposed sending his companions as emissaries to Jerusalem. Jean Lacouture, Jesuits, A Multibiography, Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1995, p. 24.
  8. ^ That is, the present-day Complutense University of Madrid, not the newer University of Alcalá established in 1977.
  9. ^ Longhurst, John E. (1 January 1957). "Saint Ignatius at Alcalá. 1526–1527". Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu. 26: 252–256.
  10. ^ Jesuits, A Multibiography by Jean Lacouture, pp. 27–29, Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1995.
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  14. ^ Michael Servetus Research Archived 11 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine Website that includes graphical documents in the University of Paris of: Ignations of Loyola, Francis Xavier, Alfonso Salmerón, Nicholas Bobadilla, Peter Faber and Simao Rodrigues, as well as Michael de Villanueva ("Servetus")
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  16. ^ "The friendship of Peter Favre and the early Jesuits". America Magazine. 2 August 2012. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
  17. ^ a b History of The World by John Clarke Ridpath, Vol. V, pp. 238, New York: Merrill & Baker, 1899
  18. ^ J.H. Pollen (1913). "History of the Jesuits Before the 1773 Suppression" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
  19. ^ Manney, James (2 May 2018). "Go Set the World on Fire". Ignatian Spirituality. Archived from the original on 12 October 2019. Retrieved 3 October 2023.
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  21. ^ Painter, F. V. N. (1903). A History of Education. International Education Series. Vol. 2. New York: D. Appleton and Company. p. 167.
  22. ^ Jesuitas (1583). "SEXTA PARS – CAP. 1". Constitutiones Societatis Iesu: cum earum declarationibus (in Latin).
  23. ^ Ignatius of Loyola (1970). The constitutions of the society of Jesus. Translated by George E. Ganss. Institute of Jesuit Sources. p. 249. ISBN 9780912422206. Carried and directed by Divine Providence through the agency of the superior as if he were a lifeless body which allows itself to be carried to any place and to be treated in any manner desired.
  24. ^ Siraisi, Nancy G. (2001). Medicine and the Italian Universities: 1250–1600. Brill Publishers. ISBN 9004119426.
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  34. ^ "Saint Ignatius' College Riverview". www.riverview.nsw.edu.au.
  35. ^ Barros Arana, Diego (2000) [1884]. Historia General de Chile (in Spanish). Vol. III (2 ed.). Santiago, Chile: Editorial Universitaria. p. 177. ISBN 956-11-1535-2.

Further reading

Catholic Church titles
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