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Ignatius of Loyola

Ignatius of Loyola

Spanish priest and theologian
Ignatius of Loyola SJ, 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, and became its first Superior General, in Paris in 1541. Wikipedia
Born: October 23, 1491, Azpeitia, Spain
Died: July 31, 1556 (age 64 years), Rome, Italy
Canonized: 12 March 1622, Rome, Papal States, by Pope Gregory XV
Influences: Francis of Assisi; Ludolph of Saxony; Thomas à Kempis

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