Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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` LOYOLA COLLEGE Page 6 | REVIEW | LEADERS A remarkable quality in the character of St. Ignatius,— | himself neither scholar nor genius save in the science of the super- natural life—was his ability to draw to himself and through himself, to God and to the work of God, brilliant and saintly men whom he met in the Universities of Europe, and in the Eternal City. Francis Xavier the most promising young professor of the University of Paris, James Lainez and Alfonso Salmeron, the gifted Papal theologians of the Council of Trent, Peter Canisius, Apostle of Germany and Doctor of the Church, such were his children, under God, the work of his hands. And within the lifetime of the saint they had carried the fight against heresy actoss the face of Europe, on a score of fronts, theoretical and practical, besides gaining new empires to Christ in the distant mission fields. The first two Jesuit centuries saw such names as Borgia, Bellarmine, Suarez, de Lugo, Vasquez, Bourdaloue, Campion, de Brébeuf, and many others, men extraordinarily qualified as leaders in carrying on God's work. Nor is it different today. The graduates of 1941 here pay grateful tribute to those devoted men who have shown them the meaning of a fibrous integral Catholic life, who have set their footsteps in the way of Truth. کہ

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ч ) DUm L 77171 А eum quem hewn иг The men signed of the Cross of God Go gaily in the dark. Tue BALLAD or THE WHITE HORSE. The dawning of this Fifth Jesuit Century is sunless, as sunless quite as that first on which St. Ignatius looked out to see a Europe groping pitifully in the dark of a sick and almost decaying Catholicism. Into a world where the light of truth gutters and flickers before the gusty blasts of age-old heretics rejuvenated, go the graduates, High School and College, of 1941. They will find it harder than did their fathers to achieve that temporal peace and prosperity which God intended as the natural milieu wherein His sons and daughters should work out an eternal destiny. May Loyola's sons find inspiration, however, in the fact that their graduation coincides with the Four Hundredth birthday of the Company of Jesus, the Free Company of Ignatius of Loyola, who also in his day faced a crisis in Chris- tian civilization, and patterned the society which stayed the rush of the forces of darkness. That pattern has been presented to every Loyola graduate, a way of life which, despite exterior difficulties, leads surely to truly successful and fundamentally happy living.

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Page 7 Loyola College Review m £ William Shore, Vice-President Lucien Cardin, President Francis Kaine, Secretary