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LIES) TOUR NG Page 9 $T. ICNATIUS LOYOLA, FOUNDER AND FIRST GENERAL OF THE SOCIETY OF THE 1940 DO GINA Y VERY REV. WLODIMIR LEDOCHOWSKI, S.J. PRESENT CENERAL OF THE SOCIETY | so many heroes today, Ignatius Loyola was a soldier. Like them he per- formed his deeds of valor, and with them he dreamed his glorious conquests. Unlike them, however, he earned his glory for all time; his dreams which were to fill the books of history became victories recorded in the Book of Life. It was in the year 1521, after the Battle of Pamplona, while he was proudly nursing his broken right shin, that this swashbuckling son of Don Belran Yanez de Onez y Loyola, this would-be conqueror of the world, became Inigo, the ruler of his soul. In that hour, through the writings of a Carthusian monk, he met Christ and the Saints. For the first time in his lite he saw the ruthlessness, the cheapness, the evanescence of earthly glory. Ignatius saw and he was determined. He would unite this Babylonian world under a new standard which did not im- pose conditions of peace, but actually created peace. He would remind men of their rational nature and their mystical union with God. His Spiritual Exercises
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ST. FRANCIS XAVIER ST. JOHN BERCHMANS would show men that they could not pride themselves on hatred of their enemies, and still quench their thirst for peace. To accomplish these reformations, Ignatius needed an army of followers that was mobile, disciplined, and devoted. It is hardly possible to dwell on his early difficulties. Among these was the necessity of further education if he were to become the leader which he now felt he ought to be. But it is pleasant to recall that his eleven years of schooling, begun when he was thirty-three, ended happily. In 1534, he received his master’s degree and his formal education was over. He had won the devotion of two brilliant professors of Philosophy, Francis Navier and Peter Faber, from the University of Paris; two Doctors of Theology, Laynez and Salmeron, from the University of Alcala; Professor Bobadilla from the Uni- versity of Valladolid, and Simon Rodriguez from Portugal. On the Feast of the Assumption in that same year, this group of like-minded men met at the Chapel of St. Denis at Montmarte. Here they pronounced their vows of Poverty, Chas- tity, and Apostolic Labours. In 1537, the third vow of Apostolic Labours was replaced by one of obedience. It was all for the “Greater Glory of God.” Whither this motto would lead them, to what it would make them devote themselves, at first these Ignatians scarcely knew, nor did they seem greatly to care. They had caught the gleam of Christ's standard, and they vowed away their own wills that they might be prepared to undergo any labor or sacrifice for its greater advancement. The group developed rapidly and well; by September of 1540, it had at- tracted so many followers, and had achieved such notable success that Pope Paul [11 approved of its constitutions in the Bull, “Regimini Militantis Ecclesia” and the Society of Jesus was fully formed. A few months before this formal approval, the first major test of obedience was gloriously passed by Francis Xavier. At a moment's notice, without the slightest hesitation, he answered his Superior’s order to carry the light of truth to the Far East. On March 16, 1540, Francis left Rome to devote the remaining twelve years of his life to the study of Oriental languages and religions, to the composition of grammars and the translations of the Gospels, to the conversion of hundreds of thousands and the consoling of feverish brows that had never throbbed in unison with a Head crowned with thorns. Xavier was but the first of these new heroes of Christ. While his letters were proclaiming the victories of Christ in the Indies, his brethren were achieving like success as missionaries and Papal envoys in Vienna, Salamanca, Scotland, Ireland and wherever else the Greater Glory of God needed them. ‘To take the single instance of Southern and Central Germany where Faith was corrupted Page 10
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