Loyola

ST. IGNATIUS DE, (loi-o'lah,) [Don INIGO LOPEZDE RECALDE, founder of the religious Order of Jesus, was B. in Biscay, Spain, 1491. Serving as a distinguished soldier during his early manhood, he received a wound at the siege of Pampluna, 1520, which maimed him for life. He then entered the Church, became a popular preacher, and in 1523 performed a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. After his return he studied philosophy at Alcala, Salamanca, and Paris, and, in the latter city, he, in conjunction with a Francis Xavier and James Laniez, established in 1534 a society the objects of which were the advancement and reform of the Catholic Church, the conversion of the heathen, and the better di emination of education among youth. This society, which Paul III. formally countenanced in 1540, became the afterward intellectual and powerful order of the Jesuits. L.died in 1566, and received canonization in 1622. [s. 558]