Part 5 (1/2)
The world represents him as a man of few and stern words, in appearance severe and dark, and yet a man in whorandeur of a soul of chivalry and by an exquisite delicacy of charity--this was the real character of St Ignatius This will be seen in the brief gliiven of his life and his spirit of charity, his absorbing love for souls, in his work of founding inated by hiher education
His character stands pronored, nor is his existence or his work ignored
His enemies have not passed him by without notice, and his friends, the friends of God, have rejoiced that, as God sent hiht renatius sends his voice down the centuries as a great individuality He has spoken as a y He has hout the universe, not only in the civilized world, but in the uncivilized portion, to bring it into civilization, or to bear to it the advantages of civilization
Other great men have spoken and have sent forth their influence
Theirs has been a e to the civilized world; it has been limited to one point of view It has been prowess on the battlefield or on the seas, work in the shi+p of state or in the fields of science But Ignatius has not been liious Order that has sent pioneers into all these fields and forests of valor or research; he is the writer of the Spiritual Exercises that have won a faained by but few authors; he is the father of enerations; he is the inspirer of scientific, literary, theological, philosophical investigation, and the promoter of discoverers and of pioneer natius was born, in 1491, at the chateau of Loyola, and at fifteen years of age he was a page in the court of King Ferdinand, and then a soldier under the Duke of Navarre, his relative The are of Panatius, Captain of Infantry, ounded by a cannon ball His life is given in the preceding pages
I shall refer only briefly to it, and to his conversion He was a young knight fond of gayety and feats of arms, and for some time after he received the wound he was confined to his bed while his broken leg was set; and while awaiting his slow recovery he read the lives of the saints and of Christ, as these were the books given to him in place of the novels he had asked for, as no others were in the house
In reading the lives of the saints his heart was touched His eyes were opened to the vanity of life and the reality of eternity co
Inspired with enthusiasm at the lives of the saints, he said, ”What they have done, I can do” The event of his life proved the earnestness of his purpose
He resolved to undertake a life of penance and self-denial, and, while occupied with these holy resolutions, he wrote in a book the principal events of the life of Christ and His glorious Mother It was at this tithen and console hilorious Queen of the angels, who appeared to hi hi him by her sweet presence
To her he ascribes the inspiration of the Spiritual Exercises, and his Order, i its founder, has shown the most unbounded affection and devoted filial love toward the Virgin Mother of Christ
At Alcala St Ignatius studied, and there won for the Society of Jesus, Laynez, Sale where Vasquez, Suarez, and St Francis Borgia expounded the Holy Scriptures St Ignatius sent Father de Torres to Salae where the illustrious professors, Cardinal de Lugo, Francis Suarez, Maldonatus, Gregory of Valencia, Francis Ribera, and many other illustrious men were professors
At the University of Paris, in 1534, on the 14th of March, St
Ignatius received the degree of Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy, having received the degree of Bachelor of Arts two years before The University of Paris had the honor of having as pupils St
Ignatius, St Francis Xavier, Peter Faber, Claude le Jay, Siuez, John Codura, Paschasius, Brouet, Martin Olave, all honored with the acadenatius were the following:--
In 1542 the College of Coiia founded the College of Gandia In 1556 the College of Ingolstadt was founded In 1552 a college was founded at Vienna, and in 1556 one at Prague In 1553 the Roes at Linatius produced ory XV, 24 cardinals, 6 electors of the Empire, 19 princes, 21 archbishops, 121 titular bishops, 100 bishops in _partibus infideliuious orders, 11 martyrs of faith, 13 martyrs of charity, and 55 others, conspicuous for piety and learning
This was at the end of the eighteenth century In our own time in one classroom Father Cardella counted seventeen different orders of all different nationalities present at the lectures of theology in the Roe was the type of the Jesuit College It was begun by Francis Borgia, in 1551, at the foot of the Capitol in Rome, with fourteen members of the Order and Father John Peltier, a Frenchht rhetoric and three languages,--Hebrew, Greek, and Latin There were present there at a given tiy The ians like Suarez and Vasquez; commentators such as Cornelius a Lapide and Maldonatus; founders of national history schools, as Mariana and Pallavicini; Clavius, refororian Calendar; Kircher, universal in the exact sciences, while the other colleges throughout the world remained provided with their own required forces and e cauished eneral eenerousreatness the succeeding century