(Gary Wayne Gilbert) July 31 is the feast day of St. Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus, who died on that date in 1556. A Basque courtier and soldier, Inigo de Loyola was gravely ...

Born aroud the year 50 in Syria, Ignatius was an Apostolic Father of the Church, a disciple, with Saint Polycarp, of Saint John the Evangelist, and the third bishop of Antioch, the former See of ...

The Hieromartyr Ignatius the God-Bearer, was a disciple of the holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian, as was also St Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna (February 23). St Ignatius was the second ...

(Gary Wayne Gilbert) July 31 is the feast day of St. Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus. Boston College's Jesuit Community, Intersections program, and Center for Ignatian ...