biography
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Loyola, Ignatius of, St
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originally Iñigo López de Recalde
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pronunciation:
[loyohla]
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| lived:
| (1491 or 1495–1556)
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| biography:
| Theologian and founder of the Jesuits, born in his ancestral castle of Loyola in the Basque province Guipúzcao. He became a soldier, was wounded, and while convalescing read the lives of Christ and the saints. In 1522 he went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, studied in Alcalá, Salamanca, and Paris, and in 1534 founded with six associates the Society of Jesus. Ordained in 1537, he went to Rome in 1539, where the new order was approved by the Pope. He wrote the influential Spiritual Exercises, and was canonized in 1622; feast day 31 July. |
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