Saint Ignatius of Loyola (born Íñigo López de Oñaz y Loyola, 1491–1556) was a Spanish nobleman and soldier who founded the Society of Jesus, commonly known as the Jesuits. After a battle wound led to a profound spiritual conversion, he dedicated his life to religious service and authored the Spiritual Exercises, a foundational manual of meditative prayer and discernment that shaped modern Catholic spirituality.
Ignatius Loyola: A Saint Reads the Saints
31 July marks the feast day of Saint Ignatius Loyola (b.1491), the founder of the Society of Jesus (more commonly known as the Jesuits). In a breviary, I was interested to read a passage from the Acts of Saint Ignatius taken down by Luis Gonzalez, which describes the reading habits of the young saint:
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