* 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.

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

Rose tried to prove by citations that numerous saints, such as Athanasius the Great, John Chrysostom, Macarius of Egypt, Theophan the Recluse, Seraphim of Sarov, Ignatius Brianchaninov and various other Orthodox church fathers, had acknowledged and accepted the Orthodoxy of the toll-houses.

* George Carlin as Ignatius Glick, a pompous, publicity-seeking Cardinal.

He was baptised Franz Joseph Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Max Heinrich Sixtus Xavier Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetan Pius Ignatius on 25 November 1912 at Villa Wartholz by the Prince-Archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Franz Xaver Nagl.

* 2006 — Cardinal Sfeir, Patriarch of the 12 – 15 million-member Maronite Catholic Church and one of the most important figures in the Middle East, was bestowed with Saint Louis University's highest honor, the Sword of Ignatius Loyola, on June 30, 2006.

Following the canonization Saint Ignatius of Loyola in 1622, he suggested to his nephew, Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi, that a new church should be erected to the founder of the Society of Jesus, at the College itself.

Other artworks in the church include a huge statue of St. Ignatius, in stucco, by Camillo Rusconi ( 1728 ) and the glass coffin of, and portrait of Cardinal Bellarmino within.

These include Cardinal Ignatius Kung ( Gong Pinmei ), who spent decades in prison, and Father Chang-min " Beda " Chang, who died in prison in November 1951.

In addition to publishing the works of Pope John Paul II, Ignatius Press has published newer works by Cardinal Ratzinger ( now Pope Benedict XVI ), Peter Kreeft, Scott Hahn, Joseph Pearce, Christopher Derrick, and Michael D. O ' Brien.

He was appointed Cardinal-Priest of the Titulus S. Chrysogoni by Pope John Paul II on February 21, 1998, and was, following the death of Cardinal Ignatius Kung in 2000, and then Cardinal John Wu in 2002, and before the elevation of Cardinal Joseph Zen, the only known living Chinese Cardinal ( a Cardinal appointed in pectore by Pope John Paul II in 2003 was rumored to reside in mainland China, but that appointment expired with the Pontiff's death since the Cardinal's name was never published ).

Ignatius Basile Moses I Daoud ( or Moussa Daoud ) () ( born 18 September 1930 – 7 April 2012 ) was Patriarch Emeritus of Antioch for the Syrian Catholic Church, a Cardinal Bishop ( because he was an Eastern Patriarch ), and Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches in the Catholic Church.

In a message to the incumbent Syriac Patriarch of Antioch, Ignatius Joseph III Younan, Pope Benedict XVI called the Cardinal Patriarch " a faithful Pastor who devoted himself with faith and generosity to the service of the people of God ".

Guthrie also saw traces of Acts in Polycarp's letter to the Philippians ( written between 110-140 ) and one letter by Ignatius († about 117 ) and thought that Acts probably was current in Antioch and Smyrna not later than c. 115, and perhaps in Rome as early as c. 96.

The term epískopos was not from the earliest times clearly distinguished from the term presbýteros (" elder ", " senior ", nowadays used to signify a priest ), but the term was already clearly used in the sense of the order or office of bishop, distinct from that of priest in the writings of Ignatius of Antioch ( died c. 108 ), and sources from the middle of the 2nd century undoubtedly set forth that all the chief centres of Christianity recognized and had the office of bishop, using a form of organization that remained universal until the Protestant Reformation.

In the works of the Apostolic Fathers, and Ignatius of Antioch in particular, the role of the episkopos, or bishop, became more important or, rather, already was very important and being clearly defined.

Christology from above was emphasized in the ancient Church, beginning with Ignatius of Antioch in the second century.

While these characteristics fit a Monophysite framework, a slight majority of scholars consider that Ignatius was waging a polemic on two distinct fronts, one Jewish, the other docetic, while a distinct minority holds that he is concerned with a group that commingled Judaism and docetism.

85 and 110, St. Ignatius of Antioch, Patriarch of Antioch, was the earliest of the Church fathers to define the importance of episcopal government.

Assuming Ignatius ' view was the Apostolic teaching and practice, the line of succession was unbroken and passed through the four ancient Patriarchal sees ( those local churches known to be founded by apostles ), Rome, Jerusalem, Antioch and Alexandria.

Photius was deposed and barred from the patriarchal office, while Ignatius was reinstated.

St. Ignatius was Bishop of Antioch after Saint Peter and St. Evodius ( who died around 67 ).

Aside from his Greek name, Ignatius, he also called himself Theophorus (" God Bearer "), and tradition says he was one of the children Jesus took in His arms and blessed.

After Ignatius ' martyrdom in the Flavian Amphitheatre, his remains were honorably carried back to Antioch by his companions, and were first interred outside the city gates, then removed by the Emperor Theodosius II to the Tychaeum, or Temple of Tyche which was converted into a church dedicated to Ignatius.

" Ignatius ' plan of the order's organization was approved by Pope Paul III in 1540 by the bull containing the Formula of the Institute.

Both sides agree ... that Rome, as the Church that ' presides in love ' according to the phrase of St Ignatius of Antioch ( To the Romans, Prologue ), occupied the first place in the taxis, and that the bishop of Rome was therefore the protos among the patriarchs.

Photius, the Patriarch of Constantinople, shortly after the council in which he had pronounced sentence of deposition against Pope Nicholas I, was driven from the patriarchate by a new emperor, Basil the Macedonian, who favoured his rival Ignatius.

At this council Adrian was represented by legates who presided at the condemnation of Photius as a heretic, but did not succeed in coming to an understanding with Ignatius on the subject of jurisdiction over the Bulgarian church.