Loyola

It is probably difficult to find a person more contradictory than Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556) The founder of the Jesuits Order, an organization that had political influence around the world and still participating in major transactions and events living under an unspoken slogan: "the end justifies the means", and the saint. The key figure of the counter -reformation, the person who created the papal secret police, is a ladder who has become a prototype of Don Quixote.
The author of the book Anna Vetlugina tried to impartially approach the biography of a person who built a powerful apparatus for protecting tradition almost 500 years ago, to analyze his merits and disadvantages, as well as character traits, thanks to which Loyola took his place in history