Word: ignatius
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...book as "a trumpet-blast ... a kind of rogues' gallery, an awful warning against Illuminism . . ." his attitude changed through the years. Even the Roman Catholic Church, he feels, sometimes needs warming at the fires of enthusiasm. "How nearly we thought we could do without St. Francis, without St. Ignatius! Men will not live without vision; that moral we do well to carry away with us from contemplating, in so many strange forms, the record of the visionaries. If we are content with the humdrum, the secondbest, the hand-over-hand, it will not be forgiven...
...once simpler and subtler than the others, Manzu had modeled his door in very shallow, incised bas-relief to achieve an effect of depth through drawing and flat planes. The large left-hand panel of his door showed such great teacher-saints as John the Baptist, Augustine, Benedict, Ignatius and John Bosco. The right-hand panel included such confessor-and martyr-saints as Francis of Assisi, Dominic and Joan...
...decisive step has been taken, I shall begin to write again, and those who were interested in my books...wherein I sought to defend the Catholic Faith in gay and merry fashion will soon see the book in which I shall defend it as a militant son of St. Ignatius Loyola, the Founder of the Society of Jesus, from which I have been expelled...
...Once? Protestantism needs its own external signs and symbols, but what, he asks, shall they be? "What is the symbol of Jesus Christ in a non-feudal world? Ignatius of Loyola's Spiritual Exercises focus around Christ as a feudal Lord or earthly King and military Leader, requiring a soldierly bodyguard who in blind obedience will lay down their lives to defend Him. Dostoevsky presents a symbol of Christ as the silent Visitant whose burning love will take nothing less than inwardly free men as his companions . . . Is it to be the Jesus of the Nazareth workshop, the Christ...
...They are afraid of my questions today," he said. "They are cowards and traitors to St. Ignatius." He maintained that he had never tried to do anything that St. Ignatius would not want. He said that many had come to him and told him that they do not learn religion at Jesuit colleges...