Part 4 (2/2)
After the event related in the last chapter, Ignatius mounted the little horse which his coan his journey toward his native land Even on the way he found his health i As soon as he arrived in the province of Guipuscoa, his native country, abandoning the coh the mountains because it was less frequented He had advanced a short distance by this path when he sao ar
The place was famous as the haunt of , hurried after hi them, he learned that they were his brother's servants sent toof his co was sent to his brother fronized by several persons Still Ignatius kept on in the direction he had taken, and shortly before he arrived in the town hehi He went to a public hospital, and afterward, at a suitable tih the town
Many cah God's grace gathered no little fruit Upon his arrival, he resolved to teach the Christian doctrine to children every day His brother objected to this, and assured hinatius said, ”One is enough for ularly, his brother a the number In addition to this, on Sundays and feast days, he also preached to the people with great fruit, and thousands came many miles to hear hih God's grace good results were obtained in ive an exaovernor he obtained an order forbidding gareat penalties He took ularly, and that thrice a day,to the Ro a bell for the recital of the Angelus by the people
Although at first he enjoyed good health, he afterward fell seriously ill For this reason, after his recovery, he determined to depart in order to accomplish the business which he had undertaken for his companions He resolved to set out on foot and without rieved at this, and looked on it as a disgrace to hinatius concluded to yield this point, and at last, toward evening, he consented to be carried to the boundary of the province in company with his brother and relatives
But as soon as he had left the province, he dis any sustenance for the journey he set out for Pampeluna and thence to Almazonus, the birthplace of Father Laynez Then he traveled on to Siguensa and to Toledo, and afterward from Toledo to Valencia
In all these cities, the birthplaces of his co froreat ed him to accept them At Valencia he had a conversation with Castro When ready to embark at Valencia to sail to Genoa, several of his ishers dissuaded him, because, as they asserted, the Barbary pirates were on the sea with reat deal to inspire fear, still he did not hesitate Having gone aboard a vessel, a great stornatius describes the three occasions on which he was in danger of death On this journey he suffered a great deal, as I shall now relate One day after landing he wandered fro the bank of a river The road was high, while far beloas the river deep and sluggish The farther he advanced, the narrower grew the road At last he cao forward nor backward He then began to advance on hands and feet and continued thus for a long time, full of fear For as often as he moved it seereatest of all the bodily labors that he ever experienced At last he escaped, but just as he was entering Bologna he fell froe and was so wet and dirty froreat croho observed the accident Froed for alh the whole city, he did not receive soAs he was ill, he rested for a while at Bologna Thence he directed his steps toward Venice, traveling always in the sa the Exercises and in other spiritual works Those to whoave the Exercises were Peter Contarenus, Gaspar a Doctis, Rozes a Spaniard, and another Spaniard nareat friend of the bishop
Hozes at first would not h he felt drawn to do so At last he resolved to undertake the work, and on the third or fourth day he opened his natius He said that he had feared that by the Exercises his ht be imbued with false doctrines
Indeed, he had been persuaded by a ht along with hiress in the Exercises, and finally enatius had established He was the first of the companions of the Saint to die
At Venice another persecution was stirred up against Ignatius Soy both in Spain and in Paris
The ht to trial, but obtained a favorable sentence At the beginning of the year 1538 the nine companions came to Venice and were scattered about the city in various hospitals to minister to the sick After two or threebefore going to Jerusaleo to Rome on account of Doctor Ortiz and the Theatine Cardinal recently raised to that dignity The coht the value of two or three hundred gold crohich had been given to them as alms for their projected journey to Jerusalem They would accept it only in the fore to Jerusaleift They returned to Venice in the same manner that they had set out for Ro, divided into three parties, as they were of different nationalities Those ere not priests were ordained at Venice, having received faculties from the Nuncio, as then in that city and as afterward called Cardinal Verallus They were pro made vows of poverty and chastity That year no shi+ps left for the East, on account of the breach of the treaty between the Venetians and Turks
When, therefore, they saw their hopes deferred, they dispersed into various parts of the Venetian territory, with the understanding that they should wait one year, as they had previously resolved; when that time had elapsed, they were to return to Roe Vicenza fell to the lot of Ignatius His companions were Faber and Laynez Outside of the city they found a house that had neither door nor s Here they lived, sleeping on a little strahich they had brought with them Two of the three entered the city twice daily, in the , to ask for alms They returned with so little that it hardly sufficed for their nourishet it The one who chanced to re In this way they spent forty days, intent upon nothing but prayer
After the forty days were over, Master John Codurus arrived, and the four deter On the saan to preach, having first uttered a great cry, and having waved their hats with their hands to call the people These serreat talk in the city, and led many citizens to a devout life Now the needed nourishrim was at Vicenza, he had reat nu for the priesthood and for celebrating Mass On all his journeys, he received great supernatural visitations, like those which he had been wont to receive at Manresa
While still at Venice he learned that one of his companions was sick unto death at Bassanum He was himself ill with fever, still he undertook the journey, and walked so rapidly that Faber, his companion, was unable to keep up with him On the way he received an assurance from God that his companion would not die of this illness
As soon as they arrived at Bassanurew better After this, all returned to Vicenza, and there the ten tarried for a while, so for alms
In the year that passed, as noto Jerusalem, they set out on their way to Ronatius experienced singular visitations from God After his reception of the priesthood, he had resolved to put off the offering of his first Mass for one year, in order to prepare hiin to place him near her Son One day, when he was a few miles from Rome, he entered a church to pray, and there felt his soul so ed, and saw so clearly that God the Father placed him with Christ His Son, that he did not dare to doubt it When Ignatius was told that several other details were related by Laynez, he replied: ”Whatever Laynez said about the matter is true For my part, I do not remember the particulars; but,” he added, ”I know for certain that when I related what happened I told nothing but the truth” These were his words about the vision He referred natius left Roive the Exercises to Doctor Ortiz, and spent forty days there One day, at a certain hour, in a vision, he saw Hozes entering heaven In this vision he shed abundant tears of consolation He saw this so clearly that if he were to say the contrary, it would seeht with him from Monte Cassino Francis Strada After his return to Roave the Exercises to two different persons, one of whoe, the other near the Church of St Mary Major Soon the people began to persecute Ignatius and his companions Michael was the first of all to be troublesonatius, and had hinatius showed the governor a letter written by the saovernor examined Michael, and the result was that he was exiled from Ronatius and his coitives from Spain, Paris, and Venice Finally, however, in the presence of the governor and aed that they had nothing which they could say against theard to their doctrines or their lives The anatius objected, saying that he wished the sentence to be made clear and public This did not please the aovernor, nor even those who had previously taken sides with Ignatius
A few months afterward the Ronatius was adiven some of his reasons, he obtained what he wished The Pope ordered sentence to be passed, and it was given in favor of Ignatius and his conatius and his companions, certain pious works were established at Rome, as that of Catechumens, that of St Martha, and that of the Orphans Master Natalis can tell the rest
APPENDIX
ST IGNATIUS AND HIS WORK FOR EDUCATION
In the kingdo those mountains whence the ared for the world their trenchant steel, in a region where the generous, passionate, valiant people seerandeur of nature itself, St Ignatius was born