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Ignatius of Loyola's real name was Inigo Lopez de Onaz y Loyola. He was named Inigo until he reached the University of Paris, in which he was named Ignatius. Ignatius was born at the Castle Loyola, which still stands today in northern Spain, on the edge of the Pyrenees Mountains. He was born in 1491, but there are no records of which show the exact date. His mother was Marina Sanchez de Licona and his father was named Beltran. His father, Beltran, fought in a civil war for King Ferdinand of Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castile. Inigo was the youngest of the thirteen children they had, but his mother died shortly after he was born. So he went to live with a nurse, Maria Garin, instead of living with his father in his castle. He learned to speak Bosque with Maria instead of learning Castilian, or Spanish, with his father.
Although his mother had died shortly after he was born, he may have benefited from this. "Biographers interested in psychological history have speculated......

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