Jerónimo Nadal

Jerónimo Nadal (born August 11, 1507 in Palma , † April 2, 1580 in Rome ) was a Spanish Jesuit who, as a close confidante of the order's founder Ignatius of Loyola, made a decisive contribution to shaping the self-image of the still young order.

Life

Nadal first studied at the universities of Alcalá and Paris , where he already met Ignatius von Loyola, whose invitation to join his circle, however, was rejected. In 1538 he was in Avignon for priests ordained and received from the university a doctorate of theology .

Inspired by reports of Franz Xaver's missionary work in India , he traveled to Rome in 1545 to get to know the order founded by Ignatius first-hand. There he took part in the spiritual exercises under the direction of Jerónimo Doménech and then decided to join the Society of Jesus. He quickly became one of Ignatius' closest collaborators, whom he supported, among other things, in drafting the rules of the order .

In 1548 he was sent by Ignatius to Messina , where, together with a group of ten, he founded the first Jesuit college , which was also open to external students , and worked out a curriculum that the other Jesuit schools would later follow. From 1552, also on behalf of Ignatius and his successors in the office of general of the order , he undertook numerous long journeys through the various European order provinces , conveyed the principles of the order's rule to the individual convents and settled the first conflicts that arose within the order. In this context, he also recruited donors for about 20 other Jesuit schools and was thus largely responsible for ensuring that the operation of schools became one of the central activities of the Jesuit order.

After Ignatius had already appointed him as his representative for a time in view of his travels, he also represented the absent general Francisco de Borja in Rome as vicar general between 1571 and 1572 .

Due to the strengthening of the anti-Spanish party within the Jesuit order, after Borja's death and the election of Everard Mercurian as the new general in 1573, he initially returned to the convent of Hall in Tyrol , but returned to Rome in 1578, where he lived in 1580 at the age of Died 73 years ago.

literature

Adnotationes et meditationes in Euangelia quae in sacrosancto Missae sacrificio toto anno leguntur , 1595

Works in German translation

Chronicon [Autobiographical Notes 1535–1546], in: Bernhard Knorn and Ignacio Ramos Riera: From wrestling with an Ignatian calling. Jerónimo Nadals Chronicon , in: Geist und Leben 86 (2013), pp. 262–290.
The spiritual way. Experience and teaching according to his notebook "Orationis observationes" , trans. by Josef Stierli (Christian Masters 42), Einsiedeln-Freiburg: Johannes 1991. ISBN 3-89411-301-4 .
The apostolic services of the Society of Jesus according to the “Formula instituti” , ed. by Josef Stierli (sacred texts sj 3), Frankfurt am Main 1981.
Exhortation of the visitor in 1561 in Alcalá de Henares , selected transl. and introduced by Gundikar Hock and Andreas Falkner (sacred texts sj 21), Frankfurt am Main 1999.

biography

John W. O'Malley: The First Jesuits . Würzburg: Echter 1995, ISBN 3-429-01724-6 .
William V. Bangert: Jerome Nadal, SJ 1507-1580. Tracking the first generation of Jesuits , ed. by Thomas M. McCoog, Chicago: Loyola Univ. Press 1992. ISBN 0-8294-0733-2 .
Manuel Ruiz Jurado: Jerónimo Nadal. El teólogo de la gracia de la vocación (BAC biografías 34), Madrid: Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos 2011. ISBN 978-84-220-1526-0 .
Ignacio Ramos Riera: Jerónimo Nadal (1507–1580) and the "written" Ignatius. The construction of an individual and collective identity : Brill 2015. ISBN 9789004304482

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personal data
SURNAME	Nadal, Jerónimo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Spanish Jesuit
DATE OF BIRTH	August 11, 1507
PLACE OF BIRTH	Palma , Spain
DATE OF DEATH	April 2, 1580
Place of death	Rome , Italy