Saint Ignatius of Loyola
Saint Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, is represented here through a single printed work, the Vita Beati P. Ignatii Loiolae, a pictorial life of the saint. The sheets belong to the devotional print culture of the early seventeenth century, issued in 1609, and reflect the era's appetite for illustrated hagiography. This archive holds one such publication, with impressions up to 1609, allowing a glimpse of how Loyola's biography was circulated in print rather than any survey of his own hand.
1 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)
