The founder of what traditionally has been the largest male religious order in the Catholic Church — the Jesuits — came into the world in 1491 (a year before Columbus sailed) as Iñigo de Loyola. His ...

Besides being the founder of one of the largest religious orders in the world and the author of the “Spiritual Exercises,” St. Ignatius of Loyola is also the patron saint of soldiers. Here’s how this ...

This Spanish saint was one of the most influential figures in the Roman Catholic Reformation in the 16th Century and the founder of the religious order, the Society of Jesus. Ignatius was born in 1491 ...