St Ignatius High School - Ignatian Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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1540—1940 MAJORED DEI CLOR am 0te ec tn -4-fit? IG NAT I AN ev €€x ewtce a e ie v

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• Four hundred golden years have slipped by s’nce that September day in 1540 when Pope Paul III officially established the Society of Jesus as a religious order, rhe first purpose of wh'ch was the spread of the K ngdom of Christ for the greater glory of Cod. Now, at a time when nations are spending millions in rearmaments, when civ lian coord nation is the watchword of a world in turmoil, when nations find themselves in danger of falling back into a barbarism far worse than that which oppressed the world at the time of the coming of the Redeemer, the war for Christ the K ng goes relentlessly onward, and the Jesuits are still in the vanguard. What better theme, then, m'ght we choose for this book than the recollection of a year at St. Ignat us. a Jesuit school, and the commemoration of four hundred years spent in the service of Cod by the Society of Jesus? Four