Prayer.
The feast day of another founder of a major religious order is also celebrated this month. St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits This is an incomplete list of famous members of the Society of Jesus. - Augustin Barruel, French writer
- Augustin Bea, German cardinal
- Alessandro Valignano, Italian Jesuit, Canonical Visitor of the Asian missions, Promoter of an 'inculturated' missionary approach
, is remembered on July July: see month. 31. This prayer is attributed to him:
"Teach us to be generous, good Lord; teach us to serve you as you deserve; to give and not to count the cost; to fight and not to heed the wounds; to toil and not to seek for rest; to labor and not to ask for any reward, save that of knowing we do your will."
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