In 1522 Ignatius became a pilgrim, giving away all his clothes and possessions to the poor and devoting himself to prayer and contemplation. A 17th-century statue of St. Ignatius of Loyola by Spanish ...

Editor's Note: This is excerpted from The Spiritual Work of Racial Justice: A Month of Meditations with Ignatius of Loyola (Anamchara Books, 2021). Used with permission. When religious historians tell ...

This biography of St. Ignatius and the recipe included appeared in the cookbook, Cooking with the Saints, published by Sophia Institute Press, and is used with permission. The youngest son of a Basque ...

Ignatius of Loyola was born in 1491 into an important and noble Basque family in northern Spain. In his youth he was a swaggering “caballero” and a solider in the service of King Ferdinand of Spain.

This Spanish saint was one of the most influential figures in the Roman Catholic Reformation in the 16th Century and the founder of the religious order, the Society of Jesus. Ignatius was born in 1491 ...

Anthony explores the cannonball moment(s) of our world as opportunities for conversion toward service for others. In contemplating the journey of Ignatius' life, we are called to consider how his ...

Many of you probably know the story of St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, whose feast day is the last day of July—of how an ambitious, vainglorious young man in the service of the ...

Nineteen SLU-Madrid students embarked on a pilgrimage to Spain's picturesque Basque Country for the Loyola Ignatian Pilgrimage Retreat. With trees that seem to stretch for miles, mountains that reach ...