Christian feast day: Ignatius of Loyola

Ignatius of Loyola

Basque Spaniard Catholic priest and theologian (1491–1556)

Ignatius of Loyola, venerated as Saint Ignatius of Loyola, was a Basque Spaniard Catholic priest and theologian, who, with six companions, founded the religious order of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), and became its first Superior General, in Paris in 1541.