In 1522 Ignatius became a pilgrim, giving away all his clothes and possessions to the poor and devoting himself to prayer and contemplation. A 17th-century statue of St. Ignatius of Loyola by Spanish ...

Many prayers are associated with St. Ignatius of Loyola, whose feast day is July 31. (While churches and other apostolates under the care of the Jesuits, for whom Ignatius is the patron, celebrate his ...

Editor's Note: This is excerpted from The Spiritual Work of Racial Justice: A Month of Meditations with Ignatius of Loyola (Anamchara Books, 2021). Used with permission. When religious historians tell ...

Many of you probably know the story of St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, whose feast day is the last day of July—of how an ambitious, vainglorious young man in the service of the ...