* 1534 – Saint Ignatius of Loyola and six classmates take initial vows, leading to the creation of the Society of Jesus in September 1540.

He was a student of Ignatius of Loyola and one of the first seven Jesuits, dedicated at Montmartre in 1534.

There he met Ignatius of Loyola, who became his faithful companion, and Pierre Favre.

Pope Benedict XVI said of both Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier: " not only their history which was interwoven for many years from Paris and Rome, but a unique desire — a unique passion, it could be said — moved and sustained them through different human events: the passion to give to God-Trinity a glory always greater and to work for the proclamation of the Gospel of Christ to the peoples who had been ignored.

He was beatified by Paul V on 25 October 1619, and was canonized by Gregory XV on 12 March ( 12 April ) 1622, at the same time as Ignatius Loyola.

Ignatius Loyola acknowledged that Cardinal Contarini was largely responsible for the papal approbation of the Society of Jesus, on September 27, 1540.

The main force was provided by the Jesuit order, founded by the Spaniard Ignatius of Loyola.

The society's founding principles are contained in the document Formula of the Institute, written by Ignatius of Loyola.

* 1521 – Battle of Pampeluna: Ignatius Loyola is seriously wounded.

* 1622 – Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Jesuits, are canonized as saints by the Catholic Church.

His pontificate was marked by the canonizations of Teresa of Avila, Francis Xavier, Ignatius Loyola, Philip Neri and Isidore the Farmer.

He canonised Elizabeth of Portugal and Andrew Corsini and issued the Papal bulls of canonisation for Ignatius Loyola and Francis Xavier who had been canonized by his predecessor, Gregory XV.

* March 12 – Ignatius of Loyola, Francis Xavier, Teresa of Avila, Isidore the Farmer and Philip Neri are canonized as saints by Pope Gregory XV.

* July 31 – Ignatius of Loyola, Spanish founder of the Jesuit order ( b. 1491 )

* December 24: Ignatius of Loyola, Spanish founder of the Society of Jesus ( d. 1556 )

She also employed other mystical ascetic works such as the Tractatus de oratione et meditatione of Saint Peter of Alcantara, and perhaps many of those upon which Saint Ignatius of Loyola based his Spiritual Exercises and possibly the Spiritual Exercises themselves.

The Society of Jesus was a new organization at the time, having been founded a few years earlier by the Spanish St. Ignatius Loyola.

It was not foreseen at Rome in 1540, when the Church officially recognized the young society forming about Ignatius of Loyola, ( founder of the Society of Jesus ), what large results this new organization was destined to achieve ; yet a deliberate and gradual course of action against Protestantism dates from this period.

He beatified a number of individuals, including Ignatius Loyola, Philip Neri, Theresa of Avila, and Francis Xavier.

St Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus in 1534, had considered founding a college in Malta as early as 1553.

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Retreats are also popular in Christian churches, and were established in today's form by St. Ignatius of Loyola ( 1491-1556 ), in his Spiritual Exercises.

The Retreat was popularised in Roman Catholicism by the Society of Jesus ( Jesuits ), whose founder, St. Ignatius of Loyola, as a layman began, in the 1520s, directing others in making ( participating in ) the exercises.

* Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola

The most well-known building on campus is the Chapel of St. Ignatius, designed by New York architect Steven Holl, born in Bremerton, Washington: the 1997 building won a national Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects in 1998.

* January 1 – Ignatius L. Donnelly, U. S. politician and writer ( born 1831 )

Ossietzky was born in Hamburg, the son of Carl Ignatius von Ossietzky ( 1848 – 1891 ), a Protestant from Upper Silesia, and Rosalie ( née Pratzka ), a devout Catholic who wished for Carl to become a monk.

* Stephanie Trudeau, 2007 Miss Montana USA, was born in St. Ignatius.

Archduke Charles ( baptised: Carolus Franciscus Josephus Wenceslaus Balthasar Johannes Antonius Ignatius ), the second son of the Emperor Leopold I and of his third wife, Princess Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg, was born on 1 October 1685.

They were married on 29 December 1997 and have three sons: Dashiell John ( born 3 December 2001 ), Roman Robert ( born 23 April 2004 ), and Ignatius Martin ( born 13 April 2008 ).

Doyle was born Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle.

* Ignatius Jones ( born 1957 ), Australian singer and producer

* Ignatius Shixwameni ( born 1966 ), Namibian politician

* Ignatius Zhuwakiyi ( born 1969 ), Zimbabwean sculptor

* Adi Ignatius ( born 1959 ), American journalist

* David Ignatius ( born 1950 ), American journalist and writer

* Paul Robert Ignatius ( born 1920 ), American administrator

* Ignatius Zakka I Iwas ( born 1933 ), Syriac Orthodox Patriarch

Boucher was born in Wembley on 25 April 1940 and was educated at St Ignatius ' College, Stamford Hill, Borough Polytechnic, London, and gained a PhD from the University of Nottingham in Mechanical Engineering in 1966.

* Ignatius Bonomi ( born 1787 )

James Steven Ignatius " Jim " Corr ( born July 31, 1964 ), is an Irish musician, singer and songwriter.

Ignatius Zakka I Iwas (,,, born Sanharib Iwas () on 21 April 1933 ) is the 122nd reigning Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East and, as such, Supreme Head of the Universal Syriac Orthodox Church.

Paul Robert Ignatius ( born November 11, 1920 ) was an American government official who served as Secretary of the Navy between 1967 and 1969 and was the Assistant Secretary of Defense during the Lyndon Johnson administration.

Ignatius was born in 1920, Glendale, California, the son of Armenian parents who migrated to the United States, Elisa ( née Jamgochian ) and Hovsep " Joseph " B. Ignatius.

* David Ignatius – ( born 1950 ) associate editor of Washington Post