THE WORLD OF IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA

Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam

St. Ignatius Loyola

St. Ignatius Loyola
(1491-1556)

Welcome to the world of Ignatius of Loyola. About this extraordinary person of the 16th century, there are already many scholarly books on his life, spirituality, theology and legacy.

The purpose is to present to you as much as possible, the world that Ignatius would have seen himself, in his travels, the people, the places and spaces associated with him and how they looked at that time, recorded by paintings, sketches, or left in woodcuts and drawings that commemorate the event.

After showing his birthplace in Azpeitia in the Basque country of northern Spain, and the basilica of today, with a flashback, the viewer enters into the renaissance of l6th century Europe. You the viewer will soon become a pilgrim on the road as Ignatius was, nearly 500 years ago, finishing in Rome.

The milieu of life of St. Ignatius was divided into some distinct periods.

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Present Society of Jesus in today's world. In the legacy of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the Society of Jesus is the largest religious order of the Catholic Church, serving in over 112 nations, with over 20,000 priests, brothers and men in training worldwide. Observing vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, they make themselves available to serve God's people wherever they are needed most, all "for the greater glory of God".


This is also an invitation to help us do develop research on the life of St. Ignatius. If you have any interesting photos or information about the life of Ignatius Loyola we can add this to whole work. This web pages were created especially thanks to:
  • Fr. Richard J. Blinn, S.J. (St. James Church, 200 W. 14th St., Davis, CA 95616; e-mail: rblinn@calprov.org) who first began to collect informations and pictures concerning the life of Ignatius and prepared slides and commentary
  • Fr. Michal Gutkowski, S.J., for the idea of putting this on web pages
  • Robert Wawer, S.J., for the realization of this project
  • Fr. George R. Murphy, S.J., for advices and the taking care of this project
  • ... and this is a place for your name!

Bibliography in English:
  • A history of the Society of Jesus / William V. Bangert, St. Louis : Institute of Jesuit Resources, 1986.
  • Commentaries on the Letters and Spiritual diary of St. Ignatius Loyola / Simon Decloux; plus the autograph text of the Spiritual diary, Roma : Centrum Ignatianum Spiritualitatis, 1980.
  • Concordancia Ignaciana = An Ignatian concordance / Ignacio Echarte, (ed.), Bilbao : Mensajero ; Maliaño : Sal Terrae, 1996.
  • Francis Xavier His Life, His Times, Vol. I. / Georg Schurhammer, S.J., Jesuit Historical Institute, Rome, 1973.
  • Friends in the Lord : a study in the origins and growth of community in the Society of Jesus from St Ignatius' conversion to the earliest texts of the Constitutions (1521-1541) / Javier Osuna ; translated [from the Italian] by Nicholas King, London : The Way, 1974.
  • History of the Jesuits : their origin, progress, doctrines, and designs / G.B. Nicolini, London : George Bell, 1893.
  • History of the life and institute of St. Ignatius de Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus / Daniel Bartoli ; translated by the author of "Life in Mexico," New York : P.J. Kenedy, 1903.
  • Ignatius Loyola : a biography of the founder of the Jesuits / Philip Caraman, San Francisco, Calif. : Harper & Row, 1990.
  • Ignatius Loyola, a general in the church militant / Robert Harvey, Milwaukee : Bruce Pub. Co., 1936.
  • Ignatius Loyola : an attempt at an impartial biography / Henry Dwight Sedgwick, New York : Macmillan, 1923.
  • Ignatius Loyola and the Jesuits / John Catling Allen ; illustrated by Dorothy Ralphs, Amersham : Hulton, 1974.
  • Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits / Paul Van Dyke, New York, London, C. Scribner's Sons, 1926.
  • Ignatius of Loyola / Karl Rahner; with an historical introduction by Paul Imhof; colour photographs by Helmuth Nils Loose; translated by Rosaleen Ockenden, London ; Cleveland : Collins, 1979.
  • Ignatius of Loyola and the founding of the Society of Jesus / André Ravier ; translated by Maura Daly, Joan Daly, and Carson Daly, San Francisco : Ignatius Press, 1987.
  • Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits : his life and work / Cándido de Dalmases ; translated by Jerome Aixalá, St. Louis : Institute of Jesuit sources, 1985.
  • Ignatius of Loyola, his personality and spiritual heritage 1556-1956 : studies on the 400th anniversary of his death / edited by Friedrich Wulf, St. Louis : Institute of Jesuit Sources, 1977.
  • Ignatius of Loyola : the pilgrim saint / J. Ignacio Tellechea Idígoras ; translated, edited, and with a preface by Cornelius Michael Buckley, Chicago : Loyola University Press, 1994.
  • Ignatius of Loyola : the psychology of a saint / W.W. Meissner, New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 1992.
  • Ignatius, the man and the priest / Hugo Rahner ; translated from the German by John Coyne, Rome : Centrum ignatianum spiritualitatis, 1982.
  • Ignatius the theologian / Hugo Rahner, translated from the German by Michael Barry, London, Dublin [etc.] G. Chapman. 1968.
  • Inigo : original testament : the autobiography of St. Ignatius Loyola / translated [from Spanish-Italian] by William Yeomans ; with introductory material by William Hewett ... [et al.], London (39 Fitzjohns Avenue, NW3 5JT) : Inigo International Centre, 1985.
  • Jesuit founders : Dominic and Ignatius / John Moriarty, Thesis (M. S. T.)--Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, 1986.
  • Loyola: and Jesuitism in its rudiments / Isaac Taylor, London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849.
  • Loyola's acts : the rhetoric of the self / Majorie O'Rourke Boyle, Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 1997.
  • Personal experience and the Spiritual Exercises : the example of St. Ignatius / John W. Padberg, St. Louis : American Assistancy Seminar, 1978.
  • Personal writings : reminiscences, spiritual diary, select letters including the text of The spiritual exercises / Saint Ignatius of Loyola ; translated with introductions and notes by Joseph A. Munitiz and Philip Endean, London ; New York : Penguin Books, 1996.
  • Saint Ignatius / Christopher Hollis, New York, London, Harper & brothers, 1931.
  • Saint Ignatius and the Jesuits / Theodore Maynard, New York : P.J. Kenedy, 1956.
  • Saint Ignatius Loyola / Francis Thompson, ed. by John Hungerford Pollen, S.J., London, Burns and Oates, 1909.
  • Saint Ignatius Loyola; the pilgrim years 1491-1538 / James Broderick, S.J., New York, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956.
  • Saint Ignatius of Loyola / Giorgio Papasogli ; translated from the Italian by Paul Garvin, New York, N.Y. : Society of St. Paul, 1959.
  • Saint Ignatius of Loyola, imitator of Christ, 1494 to 1555 / John Hungerford Pollen, S. J., New York, P. J. Kenedy & sons, 1922.
  • Soldier of the church; the life of Ignatius Loyola / Ludwig Marcuse; translated from the German and edited by Christopher Lazare, New York, Simon and Schuster, 1939.
  • St. Ignatius Loyola / James Broderick, S.J., Farrar, Strauss, and Cudahy, New York, 1956.
  • St. Ignatius Loyola and the early Jesuits / Stewart Rose, London : Burns and Oates, 1891.
  • St. Ignatius of Loyola / Leonard von Matt and Hugo Rahner, S.J. , Henry Regenery Company, Chicago, 1956.
  • St. Ignatius of Loyola / Pere Paul Dudon, S.J., Bruce Publishing Company, Milwaukee, 1949.
  • St. Ignatius of Loyola: a pictorial biography / Leonard von Matt and Hugo Rahner, Translated from the German by John Murray, London, Longmans Green, 1956.
  • St. Ignatius own story : as told to Luis González de Cámara : with a sampling of his letters / translated by William J. Young, Chicago : Loyola University Press, 1980.
  • The autobiography of St. Ignatius of Loyola, with related documents / edited with introduction and notes by John C. Olin ; translated by Joseph F. O'Callaghan, New York : Fordham University Press, 1992.
  • The first Jesuit, St. Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556) / Mary Purcell, Chicago : Loyola University Press, 1981.
  • The First Jesuits / John W. O'Malley, Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1993.
  • The founding of the Jesuits, 1540 / Michael Foss, London, Hamilton, 1969.
  • The Jesuits / J.C.H. Aveling, New York : Stein and Day, 1981.
  • The Jesuits, 1534-1921; a history of the Society of Jesus from its foundation to the present time / Thomas J. Campbell, Boston, Milford House, 1971.
  • The Jesuits; an historical study / Boehmer, Heinrich, Translated from the 4th rev. ed. by Paul Zeller Strodach, Philadelphia, Pa., The Castle press, 1928.
  • The Jesuits; a history / Christopher Hollis, New York, Macmillan, 1968.
  • The Jesuits, a history / David Mitchell, New York : F. Watts, 1981, 1980.
  • The Jesuits : a history of the Society of Jesus / René Fülöp-Miller ; translated by F.S. Flint and D.F. Tait, New York : Capricorn Books, 1963.
  • The Jesuits, St. Ignatius, and the Counter Reformation : some recent studies and their implications for today / John W. O'Malley, St. Louis, Mo. : American Assistancy Seminar on Jesuit Spirituality, 1982.
  • The Jesuits : their foundation and history / B.N. (Benjamin Neave), New York : Benziger Bros., 1879.
  • The Jesuits : their spiritual doctrine and practice : a historical study : a posthumous work / Joseph de Guibert ; William J. Young, translator, George E. Ganss, editor, St. Louis [Mo.] : Institute of Jesuit Sources, 1972.
  • The life of St. Ignatius, founder of the Society of Jesus [microform] / from the French of Dominic Bouhours ; to which is prefixed a sketch of the Institute of the Jesuits by a Catholic clergyman, Philadelphia : E. Cummiskey, 1840.
  • The origin of the Jesuits / James Brodrick, S.J, London : Longmans, Green, 1949.
  • The saints that moved the world : Anthony, Augustine, Francis, Ignatius, Theresa / Rene Fulop-Miller, Translated by Alexander Gode and Erika Fulop-Miller, [New York] : Thomas Y. Crowell, 1946.
  • The vision of St. Ignatius in the Chapel of La Storta / Hugo Rahner, Rome : Centrum Ignatianum Spiritualitatis, 1979.
  • With Christ in prison : Jesuits in jail from St. Ignatius to the present / George M. Anderson, Bronx, NY : Fordham University Press, 2000.
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