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 Ignatius
1491. Inigo de Loyola was born in 1491 in Azpeitia in the Basque province of Guipuzcoa in northern Spain. He was the youngest of thirteen children
His leg. A cannon ball struck Ignatius, wounding one leg and breaking the other. His leg was set but did not heal, so it was necessary to break it again and reset it, all without anesthesia. Ignatius grew worse and was finally told by the doctors that he should prepare for death. On the feast of Saints Peter and Paul (29 June) he took an unexpected turn for the better. The leg healed, but when it did the bone protruded below the knee and one leg was shorter than the other. This was unacceptable to Ignatius, who considered it a fate worse than death not to be able to wear the long, tight-fitting boots and hose of the courtier. Therefore he ordered the doctors to saw off the offending knob of bone and lengthen the leg by systematic stretching. Again, all of this was done without anesthesia.
| During his recuperation St Ignatius read and thought and had the first stirrings of conversion. Soon he set out for which City ? | St. Ignatius Part One
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Jerusalem. 1522 He had decided that he wanted to go to Jerusalem to live where our Lord had spent his life on earth.
| Arriving at Barcelona, he took a boat on to Italy, and ended up in Rome where he met whom ? | St. Ignatius Part One
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Pope Adrian VI. He met Pope Adrian VI and requested permission to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
Latin. By now he was 33 years old and determined to study for the priesthood. However, he was ignorant of Latin, a necessary preliminary to university studies in those days. So he started back to school studying Latin grammar with young boys in a school in Barcelona.
The Spanish Inquisition. His zeal got him into trouble, a problem that continued throughout his life. He would gather students and adults to explain the Gospels to them and teach them how to pray. His efforts attracted the attention of the Inquisition and he was thrown into jail for 42 days.
| Following another short stay in prison, which University did St Ignatius next move on to ? | St. Ignatius Part One
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University of Paris. It was also in Paris that he began sharing a room with Francis Xavier and Peter Faber. He greatly influenced a few other fellow students (Xavier was the hardest nut to crack, interested as he was mainly in worldly success and honors), directing them all at one time or another for thirty, days in what we now call the Spiritual Exercises. Eventually six of them plus Ignatius decided to take vows of chastity and poverty and to go to the Holy Land. If going to the Holy Land became impossible, they would then go to Rome and place themselves at the disposal of the Pope for whatever he would want them to do
| And to end Part 1, St Ignatius, had his second significant vision where, just ouside of Rome. Where? | St. Ignatius Part One
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Chapel at La Storta. Ignatius, along with two of his companions, Peter Faber and James Lainez, decided to go to Rome and place themselves at the disposal of the Pope. It was a few miles outside of the city that Ignatius had the second most significant of his mystical experiences. At a chapel at La Storta where they had stopped to pray, God the Father told Ignatius, 'I will be favorable to you in Rome' and that he would place him (Ignatius) with His Son.
| Formal approval of the Society of Jesus was given on September 27, 1540. Which Pope granted it? | St. Ignatius Part Deux
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Pope Paul III. They would place themselves at the disposal of the Holy Father to travel wherever he should wish to send them for whatever duties. A vow to this effect was added to the ordinary vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. Formal approval of this new order was given by Pope Paul III the following year on September 27, 1540. Since they had referred to themselves as the Company of Jesus (in Latin Societatis Jesu), in English their order became known as the Society of Jesus.
Ignatius. Ignatius was elected on the first ballot of the group to be superior, but he begged them to reconsider, pray and vote again a few days later. The second ballot came out as the first, unanimous for Ignatius, except for his own vote
7,000. At first, Ignatius wrote his own letters, but as the Society grew in numbers and spread over the world, it became impossible to communicate with everyone and still run the new order. Therefore a secretary, Fr. Polanco, was appointed in 1547 to help him in his correspondence. We know that Ignatius wrote almost 7,000 letters during his lifetime, the vast majority of them after he became the Superior General of the Jesuits
Education. Perhaps the work of the Society of Jesus begun by Ignatius that is best known is that of education.
Polanco. A secretary, Fr. Polanco, was appointed in 1547 to help him in his correspondence.
no. In the summer of 1556 his health grew worse, but his physician thought he would survive this summer as he had done others. Ignatius, however, thought that the end was near. On the afternoon of July 30th he asked Polanco to go and get the Pope's blessing for him, suggesting by this to Polanco that he was dying. Polanco, however, trusted the physician more than Ignatius and told him that he had a lot of letters to write and mail that day. He would go for the Pope's blessing the next day. Though Ignatius indicated that he would prefer he (Polanco) go that afternoon, he did not insist. Shortly after midnight Ignatius took a turn for the worse. Polanco rushed off to the Vatican to get the papal blessing, but it was too late
July 1609. He was beatified by Paul V on 27 July, 1609.
May 1622. Canonized by Gregory XV on 22 May, 1622.
Gesu. His body lies under the altar designed by Pozzi in the Gesu.
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