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500th anniversary of Ignatius' arrival in Italy

Getting to know St Ignatius better by visiting the places where he lived and made his choices by following the Spirit was the idea of two friends Pinco Lorenzon and Francesca Giani. One is a spiritual guide, and the other an architect who is an expert on the history of the area. In 2015 they organised the first pilgrimage in the footsteps of Saint Ignatius from La Storta to Rome. This was followed by two-hour meetings at individual Ignatian sites - the Camerette, the Vigna Antoniniana, the first house on the San Sebastianello hill- and the pilgrimage 'St Ignatius docile to the Spirit' where people familiar with Ignatian spirituality participated and showed particular gratitude and interest. 

In 2018, thanks to the meeting with the Centre for Ignatian Spirituality and Fr. Paolo Monaco SJ, the common desire to explain and make known Ignatian places gave birth to the Ignatian Itineraries, a project aimed at the spiritual appreciation of the places where St Ignatius of Loyola lived in Italy, and knowledge of the history connected to them, through an experience of prayer and meditation.

At the origin of the project are the teachings of Fr. Francesco Rossi de Gasperis SJ, who explained through the method of "La Bible sur le terrain" how knowledge of the earth helps one to understand the Word as well as Manuel Ruiz Jurado SJ's book "The places of St Ignatius in Rome", and experiences of pilgrimages to Ignatian places in Rome promoted in the 1990s by Fr. Paolo Bizzetti SJ and Jesuit professors at the Gregorian University.  

The Proposals offered 

These pilgrimages are a prayer experience which takes place in the places of St. Ignatius in Italy through narration, human, historical and artistic knowledge and the application of memory and intellect. They are composed of five different activities: "Ignatian Itineraries", "Following Ignatius the Pilgrim", "Seeing and Tasting" drawing and meditation experiences, Pilgrimages on demand to Ignatian places in Italy and the Formation Course for Guides of  the Ignatian places. 

These are short pilgrimages to the places where St Ignatius lived in Rome with elements of Ignatian spirituality, meditation, prayer and historical and artistic information. They take place once a month in the afternoon - Saturdays from 3.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. - where, starting from a theme valued by St Ignatius, Ignatius' places are retraced on foot.  

The itineraries are free of charge and are based on the available sources that recount the life of St Ignatius and the early Fathers in Rome, also through encounters with contemporary situations related to what they experienced. There is a new group of pilgrims each time and consists of 30-40 people. The routes can be found through links on the CIS website. 

To date, 19 routes have been uploaded.  

The anniversaries of his arrival in Rome  

On 18 February, the pilgrimage to Gaeta, initiated the celebrations for the 500th anniversary of St Ignatius' first arrival in Italy. Scheduled for 29 March is a stopover at the ancient Spanish pilgrims' hospital in Rome, on 2 April the pilgrimage to the 7 churches, made by Ignatius himself during his brief stay in Rome, and from 26 to 28 May in Veneto the commemoration of Ignatius' brief delay to leave for Jerusalem.  

To keep informed about the activities of Ignatian Itineraries fill in the form with your details on this link. 

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