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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They were founded by SaintIgnatiusLoyola, 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, SaintIgnatiusLoyola, 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.
The late cardinal of Florence and right-hand man of Pope Paul VI, Giovanni Benelli who crossed swords with Escriva over the years nevertheless once said that what SaintIgnatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, was to the sixteenth-century Council of Trent, Escriva was to the Second Vatican Council.