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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 ...
Ignatius of Loyola, whose real name was Iñigo López de Loyola, was the son of the Lord of Loyola, Beltrán Ibáñez de Oñaz [1] and Marina Sánchez de Licona, member of an important Biscayan family. He was born in 1491 in his family house in Loyola. [2] After he died his birthplace became a place of veneration. [3]
For the recently revived pilgrimage tradition here see The Way of St Andrews; St Andrews, Scotland. It is said that Saint Andrew was given, by God, directions to the location of St Andrews; St David's, Wales. Pilgrimage site since canonisation of Saint David in the 12th century; Struell Wells, Northern Ireland. Traditionally associated with ...
The Cave of Saint Ignatius is a sanctuary declared as a Local Cultural Heritage that includes a baroque church and a neoclassical building in Manresa (Catalonia), which was created to honor the place where, according to tradition, Saint Ignatius of Loyola shut himself in a cave to pray and do penance during his sojourn in the city from March 1522 to February 1523, where he wrote the Spiritual ...
The Itinerarium survives in four manuscripts, all written between the 8th and 10th centuries. Two give only the Judean portion of the trip, which is fullest in topographical glosses on the sites, in a range of landscape detail missing from the other sections, and Christian legend.
Prior to modern transportation, Christian pilgrimages were understood to be arduous journeys undertaken on foot or horseback to a holy site. The challenges which these journeys entail (e.g. rain, heat, fatigue, cold) are seen by Christians as an allegory of the daily challenges of earthly life, while their holy destinations are symbolic of the joys of heaven. [4]
Ignatian spirituality, similar in most aspects to, but distinct from Jesuit spirituality, is a Catholic spirituality founded on the experiences of the 16th-century Spanish Saint Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order.
Exercitia spiritualia, 1548, first edition by Antonio Bladio (Rome). The Spiritual Exercises (Latin: Exercitia spiritualia), composed 1522–1524, are a set of Christian meditations, contemplations, and prayers written by Ignatius of Loyola, a 16th-century Spanish Catholic priest, theologian, and founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits).