Life of St. Ignatius of Loyola  Born to a Basque family in Northern Spain, though there is some debate about that because his baptismal records were destroyed in a fire  Google Earth - Azpeitia, Spain  Youngest of nine children, 6-brothers and 3-sisters  Possibility that Ignatius’ mother died during childbirth, because he was nursed by another woman as an infant  Google Earth - Arevalo, Spain  At 15, Ignatius was sent by his father, with his consent, to Arévalo to live with the family of Juan Velázquez, the Chief Treasurer to King Ferdinand of Spain  It was here that he became a knight and was introduced to a courtier’s life traveling with Velazquez’s retinue to places like Madrid and Segovia  Google Earth - Madrid, Spain  Google Earth - Segovia, Spain

Life of St. Ignatius of Loyola  In 1521 in a battle with French forces at Pamplona, Ignatius was severely wounded.  Historically Pamplona in the 16 th century was filled with French sympathizers, and more than willing to accept the rule of then King Francis I of France  Ignatius was involved with a violent minority, and when his small militia was overrun, that was it for resistance  The French treated Ignatius with great respect after his injury, and some suggest that it was French forces that made the weeks long journey to transport him back to Loyola to recover. Google Earth - Pamplona, Spain

Life of St. Ignatius of Loyola  The broken leg Ignatius suffered at Pamplona had to re-broken and re-set by the surgeons at Loyola  This almost killed Ignatius, and he received the sacraments in preparation for death  Recovery left him with a healthy but misshapen leg  In an appeal to vanity, Ignatius had his surgeons saw the protruding bone away

Life of St. Ignatius of Loyola  While recovering he read The Life of Christ and the Lives of the Saints  He realized that there were two forces pulling at his conscious mind: worldly vs. spiritual  The worldly offered superficial excitement – but turned out hollow  The spiritual were arduous – but gave life  Here Ignatius developed his theory of the TWO STANDARDS: the call of God and the allure of the devil Google Earth - Azpeitia, Spain

Life of St. Ignatius of Loyola  So Ignatius changed his life. He devoted himself to the Blessed Virgin Mary and became a spiritual pilgrim bound for Monserrat  Google Earth - Montserrat, Spain  He ended up in the town of Manresa in 1522 and lived there as a hermit in intense prayer for 10-months before beginning his journey to the Holy Land  Google Earth - Manresa, Spain  From Manresa to Barcelona  Google Earth - Barcelona, Spain

Life of St. Ignatius of Loyola  From Barcelona to Rome  Google Earth - Rome, Italy  From Rome to Venice  Google Earth - Venice, Italy  From Venice to Jerusalem by 1523  Google Earth - Jerusalem, Israel  Ignatius was but a few months in Jerusalem before running afoul of the Franciscans and returning to Barcelona where as a man of thirty- four he studied basic Latin among teenagers at a local school  Google Earth - Barcelona, Spain

Life of St. Ignatius of Loyola  From Barcelona to Alcalá, Spain where he would be examined by the Inquisition  Concerns developed over Ignatius’ educational background and methods of teaching Google Earth - Alcala, Spain  From Alcala to Salamanca  Ignatius was thrown into prison for advising two noblewomen to make a pilgrimage on foot to Compostella Google Earth - Salamanca, Spain

Life of St. Ignatius of Loyola  From Salamanca, Ignatius set out alone and on foot to Paris  When he arrived in Paris, Ignatius began the process to obtain a Masters Degree, and gathered his first companions including Francis Xavier and Peter Farber  His name for the first 43-years of his life was Iñigo, and it wasn’t until he received his Master’s degree from the University of Paris in 1535 that it became Ignatius  University officials were unaware that the Latin form of Iñigo was Enecus, so they Latinized his Basque name to Ignatius  He’s been Ignatius ever since Google Earth – Paris, France  In 1538 Ignatius and his first companions arrived in Rome  They placed themselves at the command of the Pope Paul III Google Earth – Rome, Italy

Life of St. Ignatius of Loyola  The Jesuit order was formed by Papal Bull, Regimini Militantis Ecclesiae, in 1540  Spiritual Exercises were approved in 1548 by Pope Paul III  Jesuits quickly moved into places as far away as Japan, India and Brazil  Google Earth – Goa, India  Google Earth – Salvador, Brazil  Google Earth – Kagoshima, Japan  Ignatius died in 1556  Beatified by Pope Paul V in 1609  Canonized by Pope Gregory XV in 1622.