Ignatius Of Loyola - The Pilgrim Saint

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Jose Ignacio Tellechea Idigoras

"Even those already familiar with the life of Ignatius Loyola will enjoy this new biography.  It is a very personal life written from a Basque viewpoint, a life in which the parallels between Inigo and Don Quixote are pointed out to good effect.  Admirers of Ignatius will be grateful to Fr. Cornelius Buckley for his smooth translation."
- Thomas Hanley Clancy, S.J.

"Ignatius of Loyola is an excellent and perceptive study of Ignatius.  The author combines an exact knowledge of much of the recent research on Ignatius with a reflective approach and the special insight that comes from an understanding of the saint's Spanish background."
- James Hennesey, S.J.

Translated by Cornelius Michael Buckley, S.J., Father Tellechea's book is available for the first time in English through Loyola Press.  This modern classic has already enjoyed success in six different languages - Basque, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, and Japanese.

 

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St. Ignatius Loyola

Feast Day: Roman Rite Calendar - 07/31 Tridentine Calendar - 07/31 Patron Of: Jesuits, Retreats Profile     Spanish nobility. Youngest of twelve children. Page in the Spanish court of Ferdinand and Isabella. Military education. Soldier, entering the army in 1517, and serving in several campaigns. Wounded in the leg by a cannonball at the siege of Pampeluna on 20 May 1521, an injury that left him partially crippled for life. During his recuperation the only books he had access to were The Golden Legend, a collection of lives of the saints, and the Life of Christ by Ludolph the Carthusian. These books, and the time spent in contemplation, changed him.     On his recovery he took a vow of chastity, hung his sword before the altar of the Virgin of Montserrat, and donned a pilgrim's robes. Lived in a cave from 1522 to 1523, contemplating the way to live a Christian life. Pilgrim to Rome and the Holy Land in 1523, where he worked to convert Muslims. In 1528 he began studying theology in Barcelona, Alcala, and Paris, receiving his degree on 14 March 1534. His meditations, prayers, visions and insights led to forming the Constitutions of the Society of Jesus on 15 August 1534; it received papal approval in 1541. Friend of James Lainez, Alonso Salmerón, Nicholas Bobadilla, Simón Rodriguez, Blessed Peter Faber, and Saint Francis Xavier, the group that formed the core of the new Society. He never used the term Jesuit, which was coined as an insult by his opponents; the Society today uses the term with pride. He traveled Europe and the Holy Lands, then settled in Rome to direct the Jesuits. His health suffered in later years, and he was nearly blind at death.     The Jesuits today have over 500 universities and colleges, 30,000 members, and teach over 200,000 students each year. Born     1491 at Loyola, Guipuzcoa, Spain as Inigo Lopez de Loyola Died     of fever on 31 July 1556 at Rome, Italy Beatified     27 July 1609 by Pope Paul V Canonized     12 March 1622 by Pope Gregory XV All information used with permission of the Patron Saint Index.

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