Companions of the Greater Glory

He Began with a Cannonball Wound and Ended with a Brotherhood That Changed the World. What does it take to build something that outlasts a lifetime? For Ignatius of Loyola, it took everything, a shattered leg on a battlefield, months of painful convalescence with nothing but the lives of the saints to read, a slow and luminous interior conversion, and then decades of tireless, tender, often agonizing labor. Companions of the Greater Glory follows that labor with intimacy and devotion, tracing the years in which a soldier-turned-pilgrim learned to love what God loved, and, in doing so, gathered around him a band of friends unlike any the Church had seen before. This is not a distant, reverent portrait of a marble saint. It is the story of a man who wept during Mass and laughed with his brothers, who wrote letters deep into the night, who argued with popes and consoled novices, who governed with exacting precision and prayed with breathtaking abandon. From the windswept hilltop at Montmartre where a small group of Paris students exchanged vows, to the corridors of Rome where a new kind of religious order took shape on the page and in the flesh, Companions of the Greater Glory gives you Ignatius as he lived, fully human, relentlessly holy. Inside This Devotional Companion You Will Discover: The inner world of Ignatius, his consolations and desolations, his discernment in action, his tears of joy and hours of dark uncertainty, rendered with warmth and psychological depth The friendships that built the Society of Jesus, Xavier, Favre, Laínez, Bobadilla, and the others whose distinct personalities Ignatius had to hold together across five continents The Spiritual Exercises in living context, how the great text grew from Ignatius's own prayer and how he used it, person by pers

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