The Life of St Ignatius Loyola
by Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640)
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Plate 1
The birth of Ignatius at Loyola in 1491
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Plate 2
Ignatius is wounded at the battle at Pamplona
20th May 1521
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Plate 3
Convalescing at Loyola, St Peter appears to Ignatius in a vision |
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Plate 4
Ignatius reads in bed during recovery
from his injury |
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Plate 5
The injured Ignatius prays to Mary |
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Plate 6
Ignatius kneels in prayer at Loyola during recovery |
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Plate 7
Ignatius leaves Loyola to start the
journey
1522
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Plate 8
Ignatius meets a Moor on the
journey to Montserrat |
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Plate 9
Ignatius prays to Mary for purity |
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Plate 10
Ignatius gives his fine clothes to a
beggar |
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Plate 11
Ignatius keeps vigil at Montserrat,
offering up his sword
March 1522
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Plate 12 At Manresa Ignatius prays in solitude
March 1522 - February 1523
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Plate 13
Ignatius joins the poor in begging
for alms |
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plate 14
Ignatius does penance at Manresa |
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Plate 16
Ignatius has a vision of the Trinity
while praying at the Dominican church
in Manresa |
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Plate 17
Ignatius sees Christ during the elevation
of the Host |
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Plate 19
Ignatius is so rapt in prayer at Manresa
that he seems lifeless |
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Plate 20
The vision at the River Cardoner
(August or September 1522?)
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Plate 21
At Manresa Ignatius is inspired
to write the Spiritual Exercises
March 1522 - February 1523
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Plate 22
At Barcelona, Ignatius boards ship on his way to
the Holy Land
March 1523
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Plate 23
Jesus appears to Ignatius while he
prays at night |
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Plate 24
Ignatius sleeps under portico of San Marco in Venice
January 1524
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Plate 25
A servant of the Franciscans drags
Ignatius back from chapel of Ascension |
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Plate 31
Captured by Spanish soldiers, Ignatius
thinks of Jesus before Pilate |
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Plate 32
Ignatius attends grammar school in Barcelona to learn the Latin he needs for his studies
1524 - 1526 |
Barcinone ut se ad animorum salutem instruat prima Grammaticae elementa annos tres, et triginta natus addiscit; furente as rumpente se Daemone, qui importunis rerum caelestium gaudiis auocare alio eius animum frustra conatur.
In Barcelona, at the age of thirty-three, so that he may train himself for the saving of souls, he applies himself to learn the first elements of Grammar but is taken out of himself and distracted by the Devil who tries in vain to call his soul away from his studies by delightful but irrelevant insights regarding heavenly things. |
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Plate 36
Imprisoned in Salamanca, Ignatius
speaks to people
Summer 1527
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Plate 37
A house burns as a testament
to Ignatius' innocence |
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Plate 38
The director of the college in Paris
falls at feet of Ignatius, recognizing
his innocence |
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Plate 39
Ignatius chooses companions at Paris
1528 - 1535
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Plate 41
The first seven Companions pronounde vows at Montmartre
15th August 1534
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Plate 42
Ignatius throws himself into an icy river and promises to stay there until a young man he has encountered changes his life |
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This image is also found in the St Ignatius Chapel of the former Jesuit church at Molsheim (Bas-Rhin) painted by Audran in 1648
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Plate 44 Upon returning to Spain, Ignatius preaches to crowds |
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Plate 47 Ignatius counsels women |
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Plate 49
Ignatius is ordained priest in Venice
24th June 1537
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Plate 50
Ignatius visits Simon Rodriguez who is sick
with a fever |
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Plate 52
Jesus points to Ignatius as example
of holy life |
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Plate 53
The vision at La Storta: "I will be
propitious to you at Rome."
November 1537
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Plate 56
Paul III confirms the Society of
Jesus in 1540
27th September 1540 Regimini Militantes
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Plate 57
Ignatius sends Francis Xavier to India
16th March 1540
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Plate 59
Francis Xavier writes to Ignatius
from India |
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Plate 60
The first Jesuits shown in ministries: preaching, teaching children, hearing confessions, and celebrating the Eucharist
The church is the old church of Santa Maria della Strada. |
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The medieval fresco from Santa Maria della Strada (Our Lady of the Wayside) before which Ignatius prayed (now in the church of the Gesù built on the same site) |
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Plate 61 Ignatius testifies to his innocence |
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Plate 62
While crossing a bridge Ignatius
has a vision of a companion dying |
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Plate 63
Ignatius meets with laymen who
belong to confraternities |
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Plate 64
Ignatius meets Pope Julius III |
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Plate 65
Ignatius offers text of the Constitutions to
the Trinity in prayer
1544 onwards
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Plate 66
Ignatius meets with a Jewish man |
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Plate 67
Devils torment Ignatius at night |
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Plate 68
Ignatius receives the gift of tears
while praying |
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Plate 69 When Ignatius offers the Host at Mass, flames appear above his head |
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Plate 71
Ignatius encounters prophets who
predict the future |
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Plate 74
Ignatius visits Alexander Petronius |
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Plate 75
The death of Ignatius in Rome
31st July 1556
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