Early Life of St. Ignatius of Loyola
Early Life of St. Ignatius
Inigo de Loyola was born in 1491 in Azpeitia in the Basque province of Guipuzcoa in northern Spain. He was the youngest of thirteen children. At the age of sixteen years he was sent to serve as a page to Juan Velazquez, the treasurer of the kingdom of Castile. As a member of the Velazquez household, he was frequently at court and developed a taste for all it presented, especially the …
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…the Society of Jesus. Ignatius Press. San Francisco, 1987.
Candido de Dalmases, S.J. Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Jesuits. Institute of Jesuit Sources. St. Louis, 1985.
Hugo Rahner, S.J. and Leonard von Matt. St. Ignatius of Loyola. Henry Regnery. Chicago, 1956.
James Brodrick, S.J. The Origin of the Jesuits. Loyola University Press. Chicago, 1986. "This is a reprint of the original 1940 edition and contains good short accounts of both St. Ignatius and St. Francis Xavier."
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