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Ignatius of Loyola
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Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison.
— No. 58.
Ignatius of Loyola
Spanish Catholic priest and theologian (1491–1556)
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Lived 1491–1556, aged 65Spain
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He turned a soldier's discipline into a religious method. Ignatius of Loyola founded the Jesuits in 1541, binding them with a fourth vow — direct obedience to the Pope — and his Spiritual Exercises became the template for Catholic formation worldwide.
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Born Íñigo López de Oñaz y Loyola around 23 October 1491 in Spain's Basque country, he came to faith as a former soldier with an eye for structure and rigor. In Paris in 1541, he and six companions formed the Society of Jesus, envisioning it as an engine of missionary work and teaching. He added a fourth vow to the usual three — obedience to the Pope for projects ordained by the pontiff — and the Jesuits became instrumental in leading the Counter-Reformation. He codified his spiritual training in the Spiritual Exercises, published in 1548, a method that grew into what's now called Ignatian spi…
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Ignatius of Loyola
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The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
— No. 86.
Ignatius of Loyola
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Imagine that leader of all the enemy, in that great plain of Babylon, sitting on a sort of throne of smoking flame, a horrible and terrifying sight.
— No. 140-141.
Ignatius of Loyola
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The enemy is like a woman, weak in face of opposition, but correspondingly strong when not opposed.
— No. 325.
Ignatius of Loyola
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We should always be prepared so as never to err to believe that what I see as white is black, if the hierarchical Church defines it thus.
— No. 365.
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