Biographical dossier

Ignatius of Loyola

Ignatius of Loyola is classified in the historical people index as RELIGIOUS FIGURE. This dossier preserves the indexed life dates and geographic anchors while explicitly marking what the source does not supply.

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Record details
Research ID
catholon:person:person:wd:Q44281
Catalogue ID
person:wd:Q44281
Wikidata ID
Q44281
Occupation class
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
Life span
AD 1491–AD 1556
Birth anchor
Azpeitia (AD 1491)
Death anchor
Rome (AD 1556)
HPI
84.67678927426012

Chronological record

The dataset places the life between AD 1491 and AD 1556. These indexed dates are identity and chronology fields, not a substitute for a critical biography.

Geographic anchors

Birth: Azpeitia (AD 1491). Death: Rome (AD 1556).

Country keys are dataset keys and must not be mistaken for the historical boundaries that existed during the person’s lifetime.

Historical role

The source assigns the broad occupation class RELIGIOUS FIGURE. It does not by itself establish doctrine, sanctity, political legitimacy, responsibility for every event associated with the person, or the exact scope of an office.

Source and identity method

Source: PANTHEON_2_2020. Identity method: pantheon_wikidata_qid. Language-edition measure: 10.180294406943618.

Research questions

  1. Which primary sources are contemporary with this person?
  2. Which office, community or institution gives the person historical agency?
  3. How do later confessional, national or ideological narratives reshape the record?
  4. Which places on the atlas are genuine life anchors and which are later reception sites?
Phase II — source-led historical deepening

Historical horizon

Ignatius belongs to Catholic reform, spiritual discernment and the new missionary and educational structures of the Society of Jesus. The profile follows conversion, study, the Paris companions, papal approval and the Roman governance of the order.

Primary-source path

  • Autobiography dictated to Gonçalves da Câmara
  • Spiritual Exercises
  • Constitutions of the Society of Jesus
  • Ignatius, Letters
  • Regimini militantis Ecclesiae

Geography and institutions

Birth anchor: Azpeitia; Death anchor: Rome The map anchors support navigation, but no point is treated as the whole extent of a ministry, kingdom, journey or later cult.

Connected study paths

Jesuit OrderChurch Timeline

This layer expands the catalogue entry without turning later reception into contemporary evidence. Confessional judgements, historical claims and uncertain traditions remain explicitly distinguishable.