St. Ignatius of Loyola
Feast date: Jul 31
On July 31, the Universal Church marks the feast day of St. Ignatius of Loyola. The Spanish saint is known for founding the Society of Jesus, also known as the Jesuits, as well as for creating the “Spiritual Exercises” often used today for retreats and individual discernment.
St. Ignatius was born into a noble family in 1491 in Guipuzcoa, Spain. He served as a page in the Spanish court of Ferdinand and Isabella.
He then became a soldier in the Spanish army and wounded his leg during the siege of Pamplona in 1521. During his recuperation, he read “Lives of the Saints.” The experience led him to undergo a profound conversion, and he dedicated himself to the Catholic faith.
After making a general confession in a monastery in Montserrat, St. Ignatius proceeded to spend almost a year in solitude. He wrote his famous “Spiritual Exercises” and then made a pilgrimage to Rome and the Holy Land, where he worked to convert Muslims.
St. Ignatius returned to complete his studies in Spain and then France, where he received his theology degree. While many held him in contempt because of his holy lifestyle, his wisdom and virtue attracted some followers, and the Society of Jesus was born.
The Society was approved by Pope Paul III in 1540, and it grew rapidly. St. Ignatius remained in Rome, where he governed the Society and became friends with St. Philip Neri.
St. Ignatius died peacefully on July 31, 1556. He was canonized by Pope Gregory XV in 1622.
The Jesuits remain numerous today, particularly in several hundred universities and colleges worldwide.
On April 22, 2006, Pope Benedict XVI presided over a Eucharistic concelebration for the Society of Jesus. He addressed the fathers and brothers of the Society present at the Vatican Basilica, calling to mind the dedication and fidelity of their founder.
“St. Ignatius of Loyola was first and foremost a man of God who in his life put God, his greatest glory and his greatest service, first,” the Pope said. “He was a profoundly prayerful man for whom the daily celebration of the Eucharist was the heart and crowning point of his day.”
“Precisely because he was a man of God, St Ignatius was a faithful servant of the Church,” Benedict continued, recalling the saint’s “special vow of obedience to the Pope, which he himself describes as ‘our first and principal foundation.’”
Highlighting the need for “an intense spiritual and cultural training,” Pope Benedict called upon the Society of Jesus to follow in the footsteps of St. Ignatius and continue his work of service to the Church and obedience to the Pope, so that it’s members “may faithfully meet the urgent needs of the Church today.”
Source: https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/st-ignatius-of-loyola-549
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Antipope Benedict XVI did indeed say a verity in his address of April 22, 2006. It is a prime duty for the Jesuits to faithfully meet the urgent needs of the Church today. The usurper Monsignor Josef Ratzinger, the faux Vicar of Christ, the number five in an uninterrupted series of six antipopes since the conclave of 1958 also told an other undeniable truth about the formally Company of Jesus, now presently known as “Society of Jesus”, when he reminded of the soldiers of JSH of their “special vow of obedience to the Pope, which he (St. Ignatius) himself describes as ‘our first and principal foundation.”
The former Prefect of the CDF elevated to the treasonous level of hireling usurper “pope” in the continuing infamous task of the architected deconstruction of the RCC; in his unsuccessful attempt at masking the Third Secret (of Fatima), as well as his deceptive feigning at ‘restoring’ the Tridentine Mass, for the purpose of entrapping and ruining the traditionalist resistance has indeed said a correct thing by reminding of the prime duty of the Jesuits., which is: Protecting and defending the Pope. Oh, those brave Jesuits! They’ve had giants of the most brilliant preaching’s such as Sts. Francis Xavier, Isaac Jogues John de Brebeuf & companions, or champions of human dignity, such as St. Peter Claver at abolishing the slavery of the negroes in Brasil. The Jesuits have also its generous share of unsung heroes, such as Monsignor Jouin SJ who saved the papacy…
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… The Jesuits have also its generous share of unsung heroes, such as Monsignor Jouin SJ who saved the papacy through his quiet petition to the Emperor of Austria in order to prevent Cardinal Rampolla from becoming Pope. There are also other unsung Jesuit heroes, often totally ignored, or little known as yet subject of calumnies, such as the Vatican insiders and late Father Malachi Martin SJ who remained secretly close to Pope Gregory XVII, the non-person pope so closely handled, while continuing his heroic work at the risky task as observer to the diabolical Enthronement of Lucifer, a multi-location ceremony conducted on June 29, 1963.
The Jesuits are facing their greatest duty, which is to re-group from within themselves, since their last Superior General elected by his pair, Pedro Arrupe was forced-out and illegally replaced by turn-coats through the fiat of Antipope “Saint” John-Paul II.
St. Ignatius of Loyola; the dozens of Saints issued from the Jesuits , the many, many saintly Jesuits, martyrs, confessors as well as all saints men & women of God, students of the Jesuit’s institutions who are in heaven, pray for us.