Josep Lluís Iriberri helps celebrate Mass at a mountaintop basilica, swaps his priest’s robe for a hiking backpack and ...

Ignatius was born in Loyola in 1491, the youngest of 13 children. ... Images from Day One: The main altar at the Basilica in Loyola, the birth place of St. Ignatius.

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 ...

A statue of Saint Ignatius of Loyola in the historic St. Mary's Hall. Photos by Lee Pellegrini. More than one hundred years after it was built, the historic St. Mary’s Hall—home to the Boston College ...

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 ...

So says the first line of a prayer that Ignatius of Loyola recommends to those who take up his Spiritual Exercises, one of the most influential devotional books in the church's history—it's ...

Ignatius Loyola was beatified by Pope Paul V in 1609 and canonized by Pope Gregory XV in 1622. He was declared patron of all spiritual retreats by Pope Pius XI in 1922 and also a patron of soldiers.

National Catholic Register, Jul 31, 2024 / 04:00 am. When Ignatius of Loyola found himself bedridden with a shattered leg, all of his big dreams and plans were history.

Others have humility thrust upon them. That's what happened to Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556), whose feast is celebrated each year on July 31, the day he died.

Though we know him as Ignatius, his true Basque name was Iñigo López de Oñaz y Loyola. To be born into a noble Basque family in what is today northeastern Spain meant the life of a warrior.