Events Tagged: "Ignatius"

St. Ignatius of Antioch martyred - writes seven letters on way to Rome, eaten by lions in Colosseum, defends episcopal authority

St. Ignatius of Loyola wounded at Pamplona - Cannonball shatters leg - begins conversion reading lives of saints - 'What if I should do what St. Francis did, what St. Dominic did?'

St. Ignatius at Manresa - receives illumination at River Cardoner - 'The eyes of his understanding began to open' - Begins writing Spiritual Exercises

St. Ignatius includes Holy Face meditation in Spiritual Exercises - 'See in imagination Christ our Lord present before you upon the cross'

Ignatius Loyola and six companions take vows at Montmartre - In underground chapel, vow poverty, chastity, and pilgrimage to Jerusalem - Beginning of Society of Jesus

Ignatius Loyola's Spiritual Exercises published - Secret method for spiritual transformation through imagination - Four-week program creating total loyalty - Creates reproducible system for mystical experience

St. Ignatius has vision of coming Jesuit martyrs - 'I see God preparing a great harvest, but through much blood' - Spiritual Exercises officially approved

St. Ignatius dies - 1,000 Jesuits in 110 houses worldwide - Dies pronouncing Holy Name of Jesus - Leaves Church intellectual army to combat Protestant errors