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I · THE SOLDIER WHO BECAME A SAGE From Pamplona to the Caves of Manresa: The Birth of a Principle In the spring of 1521, a Basque nobleman lay recovering from a cannonball wound in the castle of Loyola. Íñigo López de Oñaz y Loyola — the man the world would come to know as St.

SECTION I The Man Behind the Maxim: Isidore of Seville and the Age of Encyclopaedic Faith Born into the turbulent twilight of the Roman world, Isidore of Seville emerged from an aristocratic Hispano-Roman family in the mid-sixth century — a period in which the Visigothic kingdom was wrestling its wa

SECTION I The Woman, the Mystic, and the Dialogue Caterina Benincasa was born in Siena in 1347, the twenty-fourth child of a wool-dyer, and died in Rome in 1380 at the age of thirty-three — a lifespan almost precisely conformed to the earthly life of her Lord. In that brief arc she became one of the

What Does Saint Francis de Sales Mean by "the Science of the Saints"? When Francis de Sales speaks of a "science of the Saints," he is invoking a venerable patristic and scholastic tradition that distinguished between speculative knowledge — theology as intellectual discourse — and the sapiential wi