Ignatius of Loyola

[ (ig-nay-shus, loy-oh-luh) ]


A sixteenth-century Spanish priest of the Roman Catholic Church; the founder of the Jesuits. Ignatius of Loyola is a saint of the Roman Catholic Church.

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