July 31
On this day the Catholic Church remembers
St. Ignatius of Loyola

St. Ignatius of Loyola

priest, founder of the Jesuits · 1491 – 1556
Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding and my entire will.
— Spiritual Exercises, Suscipe

As an ambitious soldier he suffered a serious wound, and while reading the lives of the saints on his sickbed his dreams turned around. Out of defeat came a man who changed the world. Defeat can be a beginning.

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