Saint Ignatius of Loyola 23 October 1491 – 31 July 1556) was a Spanish Basque Catholic priest and theologian, who co-founded the religious order called the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and became its first Superior General at Paris in 1541.

Ignatius is remembered as a talented spiritual director and academic. He recorded his method in a celebrated treatise called the Spiritual Exercises, a simple set of meditations, prayers, and other mental exercises, first published in 1548.

‘Act as if everything depended on you; trust as if everything depended on God’