St Ignatius
In St Ignatius—Chiesa di Sant’Ignazio di Loyola in Campo Marzio—once stood a Baroque Latin Catholic church dedicated to Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus. It was built between 1626 and 1650 and originally worked as the chapel of the adjacent Roman College, which moved in 1584 to a new, larger building and was then renamed the Pontifical Gregorian University. The story really begins with that college: it opened in 1551 with a bold inscription over its door—“School of Grammar, Humanity, and Christian Doctrine. Free.” In 1560, Vittoria della Tolfa donated an entire city block to the Jesuits, in memory of her late husband, and the early plans had even included a church on the site of the Temple of Isis. But this particular church’s life ran out fast: it was demolished in 1650. …
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