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St. Ignatius of Loyola, the Founder of the Society of Jesus, was born in 1491, into a noble Basque family in Northern Spain. His early upbringing was in a court. In 1517, he left his life at the court to enter the army to be a soldier in the service of the Spanish king, Ferdinand. While defending the fortress at Pamplona in 1521, his leg was shattered by a cannonball. During a prolonged and painful convalescence, for want of ‘romantic books’ at the castle, he seriously went through two books that would exert a powerful influence over his mind and heart: ‘The Life of Christ,’ and the ‘Lives of Saints.’ While reading these books, he experienced an interior transformation that changed his whole life.
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