Ignatius of Loyola Born
1491
The Basque gentleman whose leg would be shattered by a French cannonball at Pamplona and whose spiritual crisis would produce the Society of Jesus was born in a castle in Guipuzcoa. He would spend his youth as a courtier and soldier. The Jesuit order was more than three decades away.
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.