Word: ignatius
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...scarlet of cardinals, the purple of bishops, the variously shaded sashes of the seminarians. But the 180 priest-delegates who assembled in Rome last week, though members of an order that is organized like an army, wore plain black cassocks without sign of rank. The austere tradition recalls St. Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556), who when he first took up a life of poverty insisted on wearing a woolen tunic, which earned him and his earliest followers in Spain the jeering nickname ensayalados, the men in wool...
...Superior General, Father Janssens has never allowed intermittent bouts with asthma and high blood pressure to keep him from his order's austere regimen. His day begins at 5:30 a.m., with Mass, meditation and thanksgiving (by the rule of St. Ignatius, every Jesuit must spend four hours a day in prayer). By 9:15, with his iron bedstead curtained off, he transforms his bedroom into a study and tackles the day's work, sitting on a straight-backed chair behind a large wooden desk (another straight-backed chair for visitors and three shelves of books complete...
Died. Major General Joseph Ignatius Martin, 63, retired U.S. Army doctor, chief surgeon of the Fifth Army in Italy and Africa during World War II; of a heart attack; in Santa Rosa, Calif...
...right in its own way-only an hour's jaunt out of Dublin, with good fishing, cozy drinking facilities, its inhabitants (now that Lord Patrickstown, the last of the Protestant gentry, is a convert) sleeping peacefully under the benign but totalitarian rule of Roman Catholic Canon Ignatius Peart. The canon's only worries are the prevalence of love in the hayricks and the difficulty of raising funds to fit his parish house with an upstairs bathroom (which the local water pressure will not reach...
...grocer in Newark, N.J., Iggy went through Newark High School while working as a brewery bookkeeper and machine-shop man. Just when the desire to become a priest hit him he does not know, but "suddenly," says he, "it was there." He chose the Dominican Order and the name Ignatius, and after his novitiate year at St. Rose Priory in Springfield, Ky. he was sent by the order...