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Ignace de Loyola , né en 1491 à Loiola et mort le 31 juillet 1556 à Rome, est un prêtre et théologien basque-espagnol, fondateur et premier Supérieur général de la Compagnie de Jésus — en latin abrégé « SJ » pour Societas Jesu — congrégation catholique reconnue par le pape Paul III en 1540 et qui prit une importance considérable dans la réaction de l'Église catholique romaine aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles, face à l'ébranlement causé par la réforme protestante.

Auteur des Exercices spirituels, il fut un remarquable directeur de conscience. La spiritualité ignacienne est l'une des principales sources d'introspection religieuse et de discernement vocationnel dans le catholicisme. À la tête des jésuites, il devint un ardent promoteur de la réforme tridentine, aussi appelée Contre-Réforme. Il orienta sa congrégation vers l'œuvre missionnaire, en particulier vers les Indes orientales, l'Afrique et les colonies portugaises d'Amérique du Sud.

Canonisé par le pape Grégoire XV le 12 mars 1622, Ignace de Loyola est liturgiquement commémoré le 31 juillet. Wikipedia  

✵ 23. octobre 1491 – 31. juillet 1556   •   Autres noms Sv. Ignác Z Loyoly, Sant'Ignazio di Loyola
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Ignace de Loyola: Citations en anglais

“The enemy is like a woman, weak in face of opposition, but correspondingly strong when not opposed. In a quarrel with a man, it is natural for a woman to lose heart and run away when he faces up to her; on the other hand, if the man begins to be afraid and to give ground, her rage, vindictiveness and fury overflow and know no limit.”

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No. 325.
Spiritual Exercises (1548)

“I have studied at Barcelona, at Salamanca, at Alcala, at Paris; what have I learned? The language of doubt; but in me there was no harbor for doubt. Jesus came, and my trust in God has grown by the doubts of men.”

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Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 599.

“We should always be prepared so as never to err to believe that what I see as white is black, if the hierarchic Church defines it thus.”

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No. 365.
Spiritual Exercises (1548)

“The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness. So the best way seems to be to scourge oneself with thin cords which hurt superficially, rather than to use some other means which might produce serious internal injury.”

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No. 86.
Spiritual Exercises (1548)

“Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison.”

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No. 58.
Spiritual Exercises (1548)

“The picture. A great plain, comprising the entire Jerusalem district, where is the supreme Commander-in-Chief of the forces of good, Christ our Lord: another plain near Babylon, where Lucifer is, at the head of the enemy.”

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No. 138.
Spiritual Exercises (1548)

“Imagine that leader of all the enemy, in that great plain of Babylon, sitting on a sort of throne of smoking flame, a horrible and terrifying sight. Watch him calling together countless devils, to despatch them into different cities till the whole world is covered, forgetting no province or locality, no class or single individual.”

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No. 140-141.
Spiritual Exercises (1548)

“Up to his twenty-sixth year the heart of Ignatius was enthralled by the vanities of the world. His special delight was in the military life, and he seemed led by a strong and empty desire of gaining for himself a great name.”

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Ignatius describing himself in the third person, in The Autobiography of St. Ignatius

“Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will, All I have and call my own. You have given all to me. To you, Lord, I return it. Everything is yours; do with it what you will. Give me only your love and your grace, that is enough for me.”

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Suscipe prayer of Saint Ignatius

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