ABOUT JUBILEE 2006

2006 marks a year of Jubilee for the Jesuit community as we celebrate the Ignatian anniversaries.

It is a year to commemorate the lives, and work done, by the three founders of the Society of Jesus.

St. Ignatius Loyola died on 31 July 1556 in Rome, it is 450 years since his death. It is 500 years since the birth of the other two founding Jesuits. St. Francis Xavier was born 7 April 1506 and Blessed Peter Faber on 13 April that year.

When Father General Peter-Hans Kolvenbach announced the Jubilee, he said: "The anniversary invites us to examine and intensify our fidelity to the call of the Lord that they were the first to discern and that they followed in such a creative fashion that it continues to challenge us, their companions of the third millennium. We remember especially some aspects of the original spirituality that moved these three companions of Jesus and that continue to challenge the apostolic body of the Society today."

On this website you can learn more about the three early Jesuits, keep up to date with Jubilee events throughout the year, and order a DVD about the Jubilee called Unlikely Companions .