# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Ignatius of Loyola, Confessor # (July 31). Sourced directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/07-31.txt, # English/Sancti/07-31.txt. Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one # continuous vita. No Lectio7-9 in his own file (a direct # `@Commune/C1a:LectioN` cross-reference) -- not transcribed, per the # bare-cross-reference convention. id: st-ignatius-of-loyola readings: - nocturn: 2 isGospel: false text: la: >- Ignatius, natióne Hispanus, nobili genere Loyolæ in Cantabria natus, primo catholici regis aulam, deínde milítiam secutus est. In propugnatióne Pampelonénsi accepto vulnere gráviter decumbens, ex fortuita piórum librórum lectióne, ad Christi Sanctorúmque sectanda vestígia mirabíliter exársit. Ad montem Serrátum profectus, ante aram beátæ Vírginis suspénsis armis, noctem éxcubans, sacræ milítiæ tirocinium pósuit. Inde, ut erat indútus sacco, traditis antea mendíco pretiósis vestibus, Manresam secessit; ubi, emendicato pane et aqua víctitans, exceptisque diébus Dominicis, jejunans, aspera catena cilicióque carnem domans, humi cubans, et férreis se flagellis cruentans, per annum commorátus est, claris adeo illustratiónibus a Deo recreatus, ut póstea dicere sólitus sit: Si sacræ Litteræ non exstarent, se tamen pro fide mori parátum ex iis solum, quæ sibi Manresæ patefécerat Dóminus. Quo témpore, homo litterárum plane rudis, admirábilem illum compósuit exercitiórum librum, Sedis apostolicæ judício et ómnium utilitate comprobátum. Ut vero se ad animárum lucra rite formaret, subsidium litterárum, a grammatica inter púeros exorsus, adhibére státuit. Cumque nihil interim omitteret de studio alienæ salútis, mirum est quas ubíque locórum ærúmnas ac ludibria devoráverit, asperrima quæque, et víncula et verbera pene ad mortem usque perpéssus. Lutetiæ Parisiórum adjunctis sibi ex illa academía variárum natiónum sociis novem, qui omnes artium magistériis et theologíæ gradibus insignes erant, ibidem in monte Mártyrum prima ordinis fundaménta jecit, quem póstea Romæ instítuens, ad tria consueta quarto addito de Missiónibus voto, Sedi apostolicæ arctius adstrinxit; et Paulus tertius primo recepit confirmavítque, mox alii Pontifices ac Tridentina synodus probavére. Ipse autem, misso ad prædicándum Indis Evangélium sancto Francisco Xaverio, aliisque in alias mundi plagas ad religiónem propagandam disseminatis, éthnicæ superstitióni hæresique bellum indixit; eo successu continuátum, ut constans fúerit ómnium sensus, étiam pontificio confirmátus oraculo, Deum, sicut alios aliis tempóribus sanctos viros, ita Luthéro ejusdemque témporis hæreticis Ignatium et institutam ab eo societátem objecisse. Sed in primis inter Catholicos instaurare pietátem curæ fuit. Templórum nitor, catechismi traditio, conciónum ac sacramentórum frequéntia ab ipso increméntum accepére. Ipse, apertis ubíque locórum ad juventútem erudiéndam in litteris ac pietáte gymnasiis, eréctis Romæ Germanórum collegio, male nuptárum et periclitántium puellárum cœnobiis, utriusque sexus tam orphanórum quam catechumenórum dómibus, aliisque pietátis opéribus, indeféssus lucrandis Deo ánimis instábat. In dæmones mirum exercuit impérium. Vultum ejus cælésti luce radiántem sanctus Philippus Nerius aliique conspexere. Denique, ætátis anno sexagesimo quinto, ad Dómini sui amplexum, cujus majórem glóriam in ore semper habúerat, semper in ómnibus quæsíerat, emigrávit. Quem Gregórius décimus quintus, magnis in Ecclésiam meritis et miraculis illustrem, Sanctórum fastis adscripsit. en: >- Ignatius was a Spaniard by nation, and was born of the noble Biscayan family of Loyola. He followed first the Court and then the army of the Most Catholic King. At the siege of Pampeluna he received a severe wound which laid him up with a long and dangerous illness. During this time he chanced to read some godly books, and conceived from them a burning desire to follow in the footsteps of Christ and His saints. He betook himself to Monserrat, and there entered himself for the heavenly warfare, by hanging up his weapons, and watching them for a night before the Altar of the Blessed Virgin. Thence he withdrew to Manresa, clad in sackcloth, for he had before given his costly raiment to a beggar. At Manresa he lived upon bread and water, begging the bread, and fasting every day except the Lord's Day. He mastered his flesh by the use of a sharp chain and hair-cloth, slept upon the ground, and lashed himself to bloodshedding with iron scourges. Thus he dwelt for a year, feasted by God with such clear lights, that he was used afterwards to say that even if the Holy Bible had not existed, he would have been ready to die for the faith only on the evidence of those things which the Lord had shown unto him at Manresa. It was at this time that, albeit a man of little education, he put together that wonderful book entitled Spiritual Exercises, whose worth hath been attested by the judgment of the Apostolic See, and by universal usefulness. To make himself of greater use for the profit of souls, he determined to improve himself by education, beginning by going through the rudiments among little boys. He left nothing untried that could help towards the salvation of others, and it was marvellous what pain and mockery he cheerfully accepted on all hands, suffering ill-usage also, imprisonment and stripes almost unto death. At Paris he took to him seven comrades from the members of that University, men of different nations, but who had all taken the Degree of Master of Arts and in Divinity. With these seven he laid the first foundations of the Society of Jesus in the crypt at Montmartre. When he afterwards organised the same Society at Rome he bound it by the closest bonds to the Apostolic See, adding to the three accustomed vows of Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience, a fourth, concerning Missions. Paul III. was the first Pope to receive and confirm the Institute, but it has since been approved by other Popes and by the Council of Trent. Ignatius, to spread the Faith, sent holy Francis Xavier to preach the Gospel in the Indies, and others in other parts of the world, and the war, which he thus proclaimed against paganism and heresy, was waged with such success, that it was the general belief, confirmed by the utterance of the Pope, that even as God had in other times raised up holy men specially to meet the needs of their day, so He had raised up against Luther and the heretics of that age, Ignatius and the Society which he had founded. But the first care of Ignatius was to set forward godliness among Catholics. He was a great promoter of seemliness in the Churches, instruction in the Catechism, and often hearing Sermons and using the Sacraments. He opened schools everywhere to train up boys in godliness and good learning. At Rome he founded the German College, a home for fallen and another for imperilled girls, an orphanage for boys and another for girls, houses for converts under instruction, and other godly institutions. He never wearied in his work of gaining souls for God. He exercised an extraordinary power over devils. Holy Philip Neri and others saw heavenly light shining from his face. At last, in the year of our Redemption 1556 and of his own age the sixty fifth, he passed away to the embrace of that Lord Whose greater glory had been the constant theme of his words and aim of all his works. He is very illustrious in the Church on account of his great deeds and miracles, and Gregory XV. enrolled him in the Kalendar of the Saints. status: { la: verified, en: verified }