Saturday, March 12, 2011
On this Date in 1622...
...Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Jesuits, were canonized as saints by Pope Gregory XV. There was a period of unexpected tension, initially, until someone explained to them that it was, in fact, a great honor, and they were not going to be actually shot out of a cannon.
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