Companions of the Greater Glory
What does it take to build something that outlasts a lifetime?
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.
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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.
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Lives that walk beside Saint Ignatius of Loyola, chosen for their likeness, not their fame.
