Ignatius (1401-1556) – Jesuit zeal… Give me a boy (don’t take this the wrong way)…

Ignatius Loyola was a Basque soldier turned priest who formed the Jesuits, or Society of Jesus, a missionary order driven by a military-type zeal to spread the Catholic faith. He famously said ‘give me a boy until he is ten, and I’ll give you the man’. Education was to be their primary and most successful…

via Ignatius (1401-1556) – Jesuit zeal… Give me a boy (don’t take this the wrong way)… — Donald Clark Plan B

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