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Ignacio Lopez de Loyola is born in the Loyola castle in Azpeitia in the Basque region of Spain
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In 1492 Christopher Columbus a Spanish voyager discovers the New World after sailing from Spain
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Leonardo da Vinci, one of the great minds of the renaissance, starts the Mona Lisa and completes it in three or four years
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Inigo Lopez takes up arms for the Duke of Najera to help the Spanish military
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The Protestant Reformation begins when Martin Luther posts his 95-theses
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Hernan Cortes arrives iin Mexico with his Spanish army and begins taking control of the New Land
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At the battle of Pamplona Ignatius is struck in the leg with a cannonball severely injuring his leg
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During his recovery from his injury Ignatius began to read works of great saints. He then decides to live a more holy life.
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Ignatius begins his new ways of life and visits the Benedictine monastery, Santa Maria de Montserrat
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Later in 1522 Ignatius visited Manresa, Catalonia and stayed at the Santa Cove
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Ignatius makes a pilgramage to the Holy Land but is only permitted to stay for a short time. He vows to return there again one day.
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Sometime in 1524 Ignatius began private studies in Barcelona, Spain
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Sometime while in Barcelona in 1524 Ignatius finished his first text of the Spiritual Exercises
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In 1526 Ignatius and thee followers moved to Alcala to study at the university there
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Later in 1526 while studying at Alcala, Ignatius was put to trial by the Spanish Inquisition for what they believed was heresy
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In 1527 Ignatius went to the University of Salamanca to study there
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Rome, Italy is attacked and sacked by multiple belligerents, this signals the end of the Italian Renaissance
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Ignatius is once again put to trial by the Inquisition
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in 1528 Ignatius moved to Paris, France where he began studying at the University of Paris
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The Church of England breaks away from the Roman Cattholic Church and names King Henry VIII its leader
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Ignatius and six other students make their vows to this new order in Montmartre outside Paris, in a crypt beneath the church of Saint Denis
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Ignaitus earns his masters degree from the Universtiy of Paris in 1535
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Pope Paul III approves the Society of Jesus and permits them to become ordained priests
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Michaelangelo, another great mind of the renaissance, is named architect of St. Peter's Basilica which would not be completed till 1626
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Thes pledges the Jesuits to the Pope and lets the Pope use them for any service he may wish
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Ignatius dies of illness in 1556 and leaves the Society of Jesus to his followers. This order soon spreads around the world.
