Ignatius of Loyola

[loi-oh-luh]

Loy·o·la

[loi-oh-luh]
noun
Saint Ignatius of (Iñigo López de Loyola), 1491–1556, Spanish soldier and ecclesiastic: founder of the Society of Jesus.
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Ignatius of Loyola [(ig-nay-shus, loy-oh-luh)]

A sixteenth-century Spanish priest of the Roman Catholic Church; the founder of the Jesuits. Ignatius of Loyola is a saint of the Roman Catholic Church.

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