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Ignatius of Loyola SJ (/ ɪ ɡ ˈ n eɪ ʃ ə s / ig-NAY-shəs; Basque: Ignazio Loiolakoa; Spanish: Ignacio de Loyola; Latin: Ignatius de Loyola; born Íñigo López de Oñaz y Loyola; c. 23 October 1491 [3] – 31 July 1556), venerated as Saint Ignatius of Loyola, was a Basque Spaniard Catholic priest and theologian, who, with six companions, founded the religious order of the Society of ...
t. e. Teresa of Ávila, [ a ] OCD (Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda Dávila y Ahumada; 28 March 1515 – 4 or 15 October 1582), [ b ] also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, was a Carmelite nun and prominent Spanish mystic and religious reformer. Active during the Counter-Reformation, Teresa became the central figure of a movement of spiritual and monastic ...
Christianity. For the majority of Christian denominations, the Holy Spirit, or Holy Ghost, is believed to be the third Person of the Trinity, [1] a triune God manifested as God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, each being God. [2][3][4] Nontrinitarian Christians, who reject the doctrine of the Trinity, differ significantly from ...
Image of St. Rose of Lima, the first person born in the Americas to be canonized, in the church at Paniqui. The Catholic Church entered South America in 1500 through Brazil and quickly expanded across the continent with the Spanish and Portuguese cultures. Today this area remains heavily Catholic.
The shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe in Guadalupe, Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, was the most important of the shrines to the Virgin Mary in the medieval Kingdom of Castile. [ 9 ] It is one of the many dark- or black-skinned Madonnas in Spain and is revered in the Monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe, in the town of Guadalupe, from which ...
Concepción Cabrera de Armida (December 8, 1862, in San Luis Potosí, Mexico – March 3, 1937, in Mexico City) was a Mexican Catholic mystic and writer. [1] [2]She is also referred to as María Concepción Cabrera Arias de Armida, sometimes as Conchita Cabrera de Armida or Conchita Cabrera Arias de Armida, and often simply as "Conchita".
Beatified: October 1, 1995 by Pope John Paul II. Gabriel Escoto Ruiz (José María) (1878–1936), Novice of the Carmelites of the Ancient Observance (Jalisco, Mexico – Lleida, Spain)*. Luciano Hernández Ramírez (Reginaldo) (1909–1936), Professed Priest of the Dominicans (Jalisco, Mexico – Madrid, Spain)*.
Religious Martyrs of Santo Tomas, professed religious' of the Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit, martyred on March 15, 1945. Anna Unterscher (Adelheida) Born: July 27, 1898 – Höhenmoos, Rohrdorf, Rosenheim, Germany; Margareta Nieder (Aloysius) Born: March 16, 1903 – Illingen, Neurkirchen, Germany; Agnes Hoffman (Ansberta)