The Jesuit Jubilee Year 2006 celebrates the lives of the first three members of the Society of Jesus: St. Ignatius Loyola, St. Francis Xavier and Blessed Peter Faber. This year marks the 450th anniversary of the death of Ignatius Loyola (July 31, 1556), founder of the Jesuits, and the 500th anniversary of the births of Peter Faber (April 7, 1506) and Francis Xavier (April 13, 1506).
In celebration of the Jubilee, Joan L. Roccasalvo, C.S.J., adjunct associate professor of theology at Fordham, has written a series of essays, available at FORDHAM magazine online, presenting highlights of Ignatius, the worldly mystic whose vision was concretized in the Society of Jesus; of Peter, the gentle theologian with an ecumenical heart; and of Francis, the globe-trotting apostle, who became God’s ambassador to the Indies and Japan.
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