Institutional 
San Ignacio,
before and after conversion.
Inigo Lopez de Loyola was born in the Tower of Loyola House in 1491, a year before the Catholic Monarchs, with the conquest of Granada complete the reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula and initiate Christopher Columbus discovering the Americas.
Iñigo, born last scion of a large family of minor nobility, when I was about 17 years was sent to the house of Mayor of Finance Accountant Castilla, Juan Velasquez de Cuellar, in Arévalo (Avila), to break into the starting Court the secrets of public administration and the arms race.
In 1516, when Ignatius was already 25, his host and protector fell foul of Charles I of Spain, was stripped of his charge and custody of the royal palace that housed Arevalo Inigo, and died shortly thereafter. His widow, unable to leave off Iñigo, introduced him to his relative, the Duke of Nijera, who was Viceroy of Navarre, with whom he settled as a nobleman Ignatius cut.
In April 1523, Iñigo pilgrimage to the Holy Land, which was under the dominion of Solimón II the Magnificent. Unable to remain there, and convinced he could do some good for others, begins its late but long vocation as a student, bring him to Barcelona, Alcalá de Henares, Salamanca and Paris. In the latter university, Inigo Latinize bound to its name, begins to call Ignacio. Around him is a group of 7 companions, who vow to move to Palestine to be missionaries or beyond, if they can not go there after a year, made the orders of the Pope. Soon the group grew to 10. Ordained priests in Venice while waiting in vain for the opportunity to move to the Holy Land, just fulfilling the second part of your vote and placed under the orders of Pope Paul III, who in 1540 approved the Society of Jesus.
Ignatius was elected by his fellow first Superior of the Order,
and 16 years of remaining life would be dedicated
to govern and write their Constitutions.
and 16 years of remaining life would be dedicated
to govern and write their Constitutions.
The style of his government, and the Constitutions of the Society of Jesus who writes personally give the final profile of the Order he founded.
When Ignatius died in 1556 at age 65, the Society he founded now has a thousand Jesuits, who live in a hundred houses and schools in 12 provinces religious.
In 1609, Pope Paul V beatified Ignatius and Francis Xavier, the missionary in the Far East was one of the first seven companions. In 1622 Pope Gregory XV canonized.
This is a short summary of the human adventure that "soldier torn and vain," which eventually became the founder of the Society of Jesus.
