Ignatius of Loyola

✶May 31, 1491

†August 10, 1556

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About their life

Ignatius of Loyola, venerated as Saint Ignatius of Loyola, was a Spanish Basque Catholic priest and theologian, who, with six companions, founded the religious order of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), and became its first Superior General, in Paris in 1541.

Basque Spaniard Catholic priest and theologian (1491–1556)

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