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อิกญาซีโอ เกิดในแคว้นบาสก์ ประเทศสเปน เป็นนายทหารชั้นผู้ใหญ่ ท่านขาหักเนื่องจากถูกลูกปืนในสนามรบ และได้รับการผ่าตัดด้วยความเจ็บปวดอย่างทรมานถึง 3 ครั้ง เพื่อต้องการให้เดินสะดวกและเต้นรำได้เหมือนเดิม
ขณะนอนพักรักษาตัวอยู่ในปราสาทอย่างเบื่อหน่าย ท่านได้หยิบหนังสือชีวประวัตินักบุญต่างๆ ขึ้นมาอ่าน เกิดความประทับใจใคร่จะถือปฏิบัติคุณธรรมเยี่ยงนักบุญบ้าง ท่านได้สละทรัพย์สมบัติ รับศีลอภัยบาป ออกไปจำศีลภาวนา และช่วยเหลือคนยากจน ผู้เจ็บไข้ด้วยเมตตาจิต
แม้ขณะนั้นท่านมีอายุ 35 ปีแล้วก็ตาม ท่านยังได้ตระเวนไปศึกษายังเมืองบาร์เซโลนา ประเทศสเปน ที่ปารีสประเทศฝรั่งเศส และที่กรุงปารีสนี้เอง ที่ท่านได้ตั้งคณะนักบวช "เยสุอิต" ท่านได้รับการบวชเป็นพระสงฆ์ที่เมืองเวนิส ประเทศอิตาลี และท่านได้มอบคณะของท่านปฏิญาณตนรับใช้พระสันตะปาปา สัญญาจะไปทุกหนทุกแห่งซึ่งพระสันตะปาปาจะส่งไปทำงาน เพื่อช่วยมนุษย์ให้รอด
ท่านได้ทำหน้าที่อธิการในคณะของท่านตลอดเวลา 5 ปี จนนัยตาของท่านบอด และถึงแก่กรรมเมื่ออายุ 65 ปี
IGNATIUS of Loyola
Also known as Inigo Lopez de Loyola
Memorial
31 July
Profile
Spanish nobility. Youngest of twelve children. Page in the Spanish court of Ferdinand and Isabella. Military education. Soldier, entering the army in 1517, and serving in several campaigns. Wounded in the leg by a cannonball at the siege of Pampeluna on 20 May 1521, an injury that left him partially crippled for life. During his recuperation the only books he had access to were The Golden Legend, a collection of lives of the saints, and the Life of Christ by Ludolph the Carthusian. These books, and the time spent in contemplation, changed him.
On his recovery he took a vow of chastity, hung his sword before the altar of the Virgin of Montserrat, and donned a pilgrim's robes. Lived in a cave from 1522 to 1523, contemplating the way to live a Christian life. Pilgrim to Rome and the Holy Land in 1523, where he worked to convert Muslims. In 1528 he began studying theology in Barcelona, Alcala, and Paris, receiving his degree on 14 March 1534. His meditations, prayers, visions and insights led to forming the Constitutions of the Society of Jesus on 15 August 1534; it received papal approval in 1541. Friend of James Lainez, Alonso Salmer?n, Nicholas Bobadilla, Sim?n Rodriguez, Blessed Peter Faber, and Saint Francis Xavier, the group that formed the core of the new Society. He never used the term Jesuit, which was coined as an insult by his opponents; the Society today uses the term with pride. He travelled Europe and the Holy Lands, then settled in Rome to direct the Jesuits. His health suffered in later years, and he was nearly blind at death.
The Jesuits today have over 500 universities and colleges, 30,000 members, and teach over 200,000 students each year.
Born
1491 at Loyola, Guipuzcoa, Spain as Inigo Lopez de Loyola
Died
of fever on 31 July 1556 at Rome, Italy
Beatified
27 July 1609 by Pope Paul V
Canonized
12 March 1622 by Pope Gregory XV
Patronage
Basque country; diocese of Bilbao, Spain; Bizkaia, Spain; Gipuzkoa, Spain; Guipuscoa, Spain; Guip?zcoa, Spain; Jesuit Order; Jesuits; military ordinariate of the Philippines; retreats; Society of Jesus; soldiers; Spiritual Exercises (by Pope Pius XI); Vizcaya, Spain
Images
Gallery of images of Saint Ignatius
Readings
Ignatius was passionately fond of reading worldly books of fiction and tales of knight-errantry. When he felt he was getting better from a wound he had received in battle, he asked for some of these books to pass the time. But no book of that sort could be found in the house; instead they gave him a life of Christ and a collection of the lives of saints written in Spanish.
By constantly reading these books he began to be attracted to what he found narrated there. Sometimes in the midst of his reading he would reflect on what he had read. Yet at other times he would dwell on many of the things which he had been accustomed to dwell on previously. But at this point our Lord came to his assistance, insuring that these thoughts were followed by others which arose from his current reading.
While reading the life of Christ our Lord or lives of the saints, he would reflect and reason with himself: "What if I should do what Saint Francis or Saint Dominic did?" In this way he let his mind dwell on many thoughts; they lasted a while until other things took their place. Then those vain and worldly images would come into his mind and remain a long time.
But there was a difference. When Ignatius reflected on worldly thoughts, he felt intense pleasure; but when he gave them up our of weariness, he felt dry and depressed. Yet when he thought of living the rigorous sort of life he knew the saints had lived, he not only experienced pleasure when he actually thought about it, but even after he dismissed these thoughts, he still experienced great joy. Yet he did not pay attention to this, nor did he appreciate it, until one day, in a moment of insight he began to marvel at the difference. Then he understood his experience. Thoughts of one kind left him sad, the others full of joy.
from the life of Saint Ignatius, from his own words, by Luis Gonzalez
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Do not let any occasion of gaining merit pass without taking care to draw some spiritual profit from it; as, for example, from a sharp word which someone may say to you; from an act of obedience imposed against your will; from an opportunity which may occur to humble yourself, or to practice charity, sweetness, and patience. All of these occasions are gain for you, and you should seek to procure them; and at the close of that day, when the greatest number of them have come to you, you should go to rest most cheerful and pleased, as the merchant does on the day when he had had most chance for making money; for on that day business has prospered with him.Saint Ignatius Loyola
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If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He has great designs for you, and that He certainly intends to make you a saint. And if you wish to become a great saint, entreat Him yourself to give you much opportunity for suffering; for there is no wood better to kindle the fire of holy love than the wood of the cross, which Christ used for His own great sacrifice of boundless charity.Saint Ignatius Loyola
