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231895
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Title
Ignatius van Loyola
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1955
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First edition
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336
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24.0 x  cm
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geen
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With 224 photos duotone Saint Iñigo Lopez de Loyola (Loyola Castle near Azpeitia, December 24, 1491 - Rome, July 31, 1556), better known by his Latin name Ignatius of Loyola, became known for his part in the foundation of the Society of Jesus, as the first "general" thereof and by its Spiritual Exercises. He was canonized by Pope Gregory XV in 1622. His feast day falls on July 31. Ignatius of Loyola was the son of a Spanish nobleman. In his early years he seems to have led a dissolute life, but during his service in the Spanish army, the French siege of Pamplona was reversed in 1521 when a cannonball shot between his legs, wounding both of his legs. After his recovery he made a pilgrimage to Palestine with six others from Paris in 1534. Loyola was ordained a priest in Venice in 1537. In 1539 the Jesuits were founded in Rome. He is buried in Rome in the Jesuit church Gesù. In Loyola, in the Spanish Basque Country, his birthplace, a monastery and a church were built, dedicated to Ignatius, to which pilgrimages are made. The Ignatiusgymnasium in Amsterdam is named after this saint. In the Sint-Barbara College in Ghent (Jesuit college that no longer has Jesuits and then converted their rooms into new rooms, including a religious room overlooking the skyline of Ghent), the college chapel is called 'the Ignatius chapel'.

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