Founder of the Society of Jesus, or Jesuits, whose Spiritual Exercises, completed in 1535, remains one of the most important instruments for spiritual contemplation.
A Spaniad of noble blood, he was converted to becoming a "soldier of Christ" while recuperating from a a wound sustained during military duty in 1521. He retreated to Manresa and from his meditations and mystical experiences from this period (1522-23) emerged the substance for his Spiritual Exercises.
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