Indeed,it was more than Horne's talent as an entertainer that brought artists such as Vanessa Williams, Dianne Carroll,Dionne Warwick and the international opera star Jessye Norman to Saint Ignatius Loyola on Friday.
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The main rituals are a representation of the victory of SaintIgnatius and a choreographed procession of participants disguised as masked ancestors and animals.
They were founded by SaintIgnatius Loyola, a wounded Basque soldier who had a vision in 1521 as he was recuperating after his leg was shattered by a French cannonball.
Founded by a soldier turned mystic, SaintIgnatius Loyola, in the 16th Century, they have a tradition of intellectual and spiritual rigour which suggests that the Vatican is about to undergo a reset with huge implications for the future of the Roman Catholic Church in the 21st Century.