You're listening to a podcast on Catholic Saints.

This podcast is produced by the Augustine Institute, an Apostolate helping Catholics understand, live, and share their faith.

I'm Tim Gray, President of the Augustine Institute, and joining me is Professor Ben Acres, who's also our executive director of

formed. And so he's the one who makes all these things happen here at Formed, and he's the boss of formed. So it's great to have been with us. And today is the Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola. So we're going to talk about this great, great saint, St. Ignatius. We have a great image of him that was the original sketch that we have.

And we use that for part of our series, True Reformers,

because St. Ignatius... him that was original sketch that we have and we use that for part of our

series true reformers because St. Ignatius gets canonized right I think the year

1622 and he's right at the counter-reformation and he's really the high tide I

would say of the counter-reformation and what he brings in and what he does to renew the church is just absolutely astounded.

It's an amazing story.

And we're going to talk about this incredible saint, but I just want to mention we have

a book, True Reformers, that the Augustine Zeus published.

And there's a wonderful chapter on St. Ignatius here, as well as all the other saints

who are these stellar saints of the counter

Reformation this time when the church was in great corruption and worldliness and yet

it went through an incredible renewal and revival and that's what we hope is

going to happen in the age today that the church has kind of gotten a bit corrupt

in some ways and complacent others and world in many.

And it's time for a great renewal.

And that's what St. John Paul II called the church to a great new springtime.

And the last time we had a great new springtime was really the counter-reformation,

the time of people like St. Ignatius of Loyola.

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