Part 4 (1/2)
Many persons of rank endeavored to dissuade hi the few books he possessed upon a little ass, he took leave of his companions about fifteen or twenty days after they caht to deter hi to France, as at that tireat fierceness Notwithstanding the many acts of cruelty inflicted by the French upon the Spaniards, many of whom had been impaled, he persevered in his intention
CHAPTER VII
HIS STUDIES IN PARIS, AND OTHER INCIDENTS OF HIS LIFE
He left for Paris on foot and alone, and, according to his own reckoning, arrived there toward the beginning of February, 1528 While in prison, the Prince of Spain was born, and from this event we can determine the date of what preceded and followed At Paris he lived with soe of Montaigu As he had been advanced too rapidly to the higher studies, he returned to those of a lower grade, because he felt that in great part he lacked the proper groundwork He therefore studied in a class with children When he first caold crowns on an order sent fro in the hands of one of the Spaniards hom he lived This latter very soon appropriated them for his own use, and when called upon, could not restore thenatius found himself unprovided for, partly on account of the loss mentioned, and partly on account of other expenses In consequence, he was forced to seek his livelihood by begging, and to leave the house where he lived
Afterward he was received into the Hospital of St James, near the Church of the Holy Innocents This residence proved no slight hindrance to his studies The hospital was at a great distance froht unless he returned before the sound of the Angelus, in the ht He could not, in consequence, be present at, nor give his time to, the lectures with profit He found another hindrance, also, in loss of the ti alms ith to purchase food
As he had not experienced interior spiritual suffering for almost five years, he mortified himself by austere fasts and penances After he had spent so his food, he noticed that his progress in letters was not rapid He then considered what course to follow He had observed that es had abundant tiht serve in the sahed the ht of it as follows: ”I shall iine that my master is Christ, and I shall call one of the students Peter, another John, and to the rest I shall give the naives me a command, I shall think, that Christ coives orders, I shall think that the order coent in seeking a master, and spoke of the matter to a bachelor and to a Carthusian monk, who knew many masters, and to others, but he was never able to find one
Deprived of every resource, he was told by a Spanish o every year to Flanders, and there in two h for the whole year He approved of the plan, after recoht back yearly from Flanders whatever he needed for his land, and froathered in the previous years
When he first returned froan to devote hiave the Exercises to three persons,--to Peralta, to Castro, a friend elt at Sorbonne, and to a Cantabrian who lived in the College of St Barbara, by nae was ave to the poor whatever they had, even their books, while they theed, and to dwell in the Hospital of St Janatius had previously dwelt, and which he left as stated above This incident aroused a great outcry in the University of Paris, because the two first were very famous men
The other Spaniards at once undertook to oppose theureat croent ared, thereed with their captors to complete their course of studies, and afterward to follow out their deter for a while at Burgos, joined the Order of the Carthusians at Valencia
Peralta undertook a journey to Jerusalearb he was seized in Italy by a ing hin Pontiff, from whom he obtained a command for Peralta to return to Spain All these events did not occur then, but years afterward Exaggerated reports arose against Ignatius at Paris, especially a the Spaniards De Govea ont to say that Anatius to the verge of insanity He therefore e of St Barbara, he would give hi as a seducer of the pupils
Now the Spaniard who had spent the natius and had not paid him, had set out to journey to Spain and fallen sick As soon as Ignatius learned of this, he was seized with a longing to visit and help hiive himself wholly to God And indeed to accomplish this he wished to make the journey barefooted, without food or drink While praying for this purpose, he felt hi the Church of St Dominic, he resolved to ht be te day, upon arising, so great a fear seized him that it seemed to him that he could not even put on his clothes In this interior strife he left the house and went out of the city, and the fear did not leave him till he was nine e which the inhabitants call Argenteuil, where the Holy Coat of Our Lord is said to be preserved As he left this place in great trouble of spirit, a feeling of great consolation and strength filled his soul with such joy that he began to shout aloud and to talk with God as he walked through the fields That night, having coar in a hospital On the next day toward nightfall he lodged in a straw-thatched cabin On the third day he arrived on foot According to his resolve, he took neither food nor drink Upon his arrival he consoled the sick man, helped hiave hia, ere in Salamanca Here we may dwell for a natius was at Paris he often sent the theed by letter Donna Leonora de Mascarenas to use her influence with the King of Portugal for Calisto, that hehad established A certain yearly aid is called a burse
Donna Leonora gave Calisto a al He set out, but never reached that place He came back afterward to Spain and went to India He returned rich, to the great surprise of all at Salamanca, who had known hiovia, his native city, began to grow una was first istrate Afterward, when the Society was established at Ronatius, ”I wish this bishopric to be given to one of the Society” But as soon as the answer came that this was not to be done, he went to India, was e death While sick it chanced that two phials of liquid were placed in water to cool, one containing a medicine ordered for him by the doctor, the other a diluted poison called Solliht, which he drank, and thus ended his life
Returning to Paris Ignatius heardhis name with that of Caceres and Peralta, and learned that he had been sue As he did not wish to remain in doubt, he went of his own accord to the Inquisitor, a Doht for, and I now presentthe conversation he asked the Inquisitor to terin his course in arts on the approaching feast of St Reius, and therefore wished all other business coreater profit The Inquisitor on his part told hiainst hiain
Toward the first of October, the feast of St Rean his course under the preceptor Master John Pegna, with the intention of fostering the vocations of those ished to serve God He intended to add others in order the ive his mind to his studies He followed the lectures in philosophy, and experienced the sa gra the lectures he was troubled by so hts that he could not listen attentively Accordingly, as he saas ress in his studies, he spoke to his preceptor and pro as he could find bread and water enough to keep hi this promise, all these untimely devotions ceased to disturb him, and he quietly pursued his studies He was at this period a friend of Peter Faber and Francis Xavier, who the the last years he was not persecuted as at first Speaking of this to hius remarked that he was surprised that no oneto the fact that I do not speak on religious topics But when the course is co the course of this conversation aa house, in which there were ue At that tius and Ignatius wished to visit the house, and procured the aid of a wo the disease After she had entered the house she answered that the plague was certainly there Ignatius, also, entered and consoled and revived a sickthere When he had touched the wounds with his hand, Ignatius departed alone His hand began to cause hiht the disease The fear that careat that he was unable to vanquish and drive it away, until with a great effort he placed his fingers in his , ”If you have the plague in your hand, you will also have it in your mouth” As soon as this was done, the illusion left him and the pain he had felt in his hand ceased
He was not allowed to enter the College of St Barbara where he was then living, for all fled from him when they learned that he had entered a house infected with the plague He was obliged to ree
At Paris it is customary for those who follow the philosophical studies to receive in their third year the Petra, as it is called, in order to obtain the bachelor's degree Now those who are very poor are unable to conatius was in great hesitation, he subment of his preceptor The latter advised him to receive it He did so, but not without a complaint on the part of some, especially of a certain Spaniard who had taken note of the fact
While in Paris he suffered great pains of the stomach for several days On the twenty-fifth day, for the space of an hour, a very severe pain seized hi with it a fever One day the pains lasted for sixteen or seventeen hours At that time he had already concluded his course, had spent soy, and had collected his coreorse day by day, and the ht no relief, the doctors said that the only one left for hi but his native air could cure hiave him the same advice By this tio first to Venice, and then to Jerusale souls If, however, they should not be allowed to remain in Jerusalem, they were to return to Ron Pontiff, Christ's Vicar, that he lory and the salvation of souls They also agreed to wait one year at Venice for shi+ps to carry the the year no shi+p were at hand, they should be absolved fronatius yielded to the advice of his companions, in order to attend to their business in Spain It was agreed a them, that after the recovery of his health he should settle their affairs and they should go to Venice, and there await hi to the agreement his companions were to leave two years afterward on the feast of the conversion of St Paul However, owing to the wars, they were obliged to anticipate that time, and to set out from Paris in the month of Novenatius had heard that an accusation had been ainst him before the Inquisitor, while no summons had as yet been served, he went to that official and stated what he had heard At the same time he told him that he had several companions, and that he himself was about to travel to Spain, and requested that sentence should be passed upon him The Inquisitor admitted that the accusation had been made, but that he did not think it worthy of consideration He said that he wishedthe Exercises
Having seen these he approved of thenatius coht to an end, and that judght a notary and witnesses to the Inquisitor's house, and received their testies
CHAPTER VIII
HIS ARRIVAL IN HIS NATIVE LAND AND THE VIRTUES PRACTISED THERE--HIS JOURNEY INTO SPAIN AND ITALY--THE FAMOUS APPARITION AND HIS LIFE IN THE SAME PLACE