Saint Ignatius of Loyola – From Ignatius in search of God to Ignatius, companion of Jesus

Saint Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, one of the most gigantic institutions of the Church, and author of the Spiritual Exercises, is still alive and active in the 21st century, doing good throughout the world through his disciples and his writings. Ignatius was an "average Christian", who had a weak faith, more received than personalized, and a sporadic religious practice, together with what his society offered: "hatred and tribal teachings and enormously permissive in matters of honor and sex." A life with no horizons other than "the vanities of the world," "great and vain desire to gain honor" and the search for pleasure. Until, in the human failure of convalescence from the wound of a projectile in the battle of Pamplona, ​​he gets to know Christ up close and decides to be all of him and for him, his Lord. One of the most prestigious experts on Ignatius and his work, the Jesuit Ignacio Iglesias, with precise documentation and abundant texts from his holy founder, offers us this masterpiece that paints the Saint Ignatius we know: a man in continual search for God, a faithful companion of Jesus, who saw in his lifetime how his Company spread throughout the world and how his Exercises brought souls to God.

IGNACIO IGLESIAS

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