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What Made Ignatius Remarkable (AutoRecovered)
What Made Ignatius Remarkable (AutoRecovered)
his spiritual practices/ his spirituality. He was the founder for the society of Jesus.
Founding the Jesuits.
1491-1556
Ignatius was born in 1491 in Spain.
At the age of 16 he was sent to work for the treasurer of the Kingdom of Castile.
When he was 30 years old, while serving as an officer in the Spanish army, he was struck by a
canon ball while in battle against the French.
At the age of 33 he was ordained a priest in Rome and the Pope put him to work teaching
scripture.
So in 1522, he made a pilgrimage to the Benedictine abbey in Montserrat, Spain
1526, , his new ideas on prayer attracted suspi cion, and he was thrown in jail by the Inquisition. “He was
in pris on for seventeen days without being examined or knowing the reason for it,” he wrote.
hile he was busy writing the Constitutions, Ignatius was also putting the finishing touches on his classic
text, The Spiritual Ex ercises, his manual for a four-week period of meditation on the life of Jesus, first
published in 1548.