450 anniversary of the St. Ignatius of Loyola’s death
Loiola: The Holy House
The medieval Tower House located in the middle od the Shrine of Loiola, building site property of Messrs. Oñaz and Loyola, in which Iñigo of Loyola was born in 1491. The lower half, made in stone, almost without cavities: a real fortress built at the end of the XIV century by Iñigo’s greatgreat- grandfather, Beltrán Ibáñez of Loyola. The upper half, made of brick, with a lot of windows and four ornamental lookout posts at the corners, adorned with Mudejar lacing festons: a palace more than a military tower. It is a reconstruction carried out in 1460 by Iñigo’s grandfather, Juan Pérez of Loyola, when he came back from the exile to which, because of stirring the people to revolt, he had been condemned by the King of Castile.
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Iñigo of Loyola was born in this Tower House in 1491. Here, he converted to God in 1521 and, from here, he set off so as to write the retreat and found the Society of Jesus.
In the Conversion Chapel, the wounded Iñigo of Loyola overcame operations and the risk of death. His readings, when he was convalescent, on the life of Christ and Saints, revealed him here, and in the oratory of his house, that he had to change his way of living and go on a pilgrimage in the search of Jesus Christ. He did it and finished becaming St. Ignatius of Loyola.