"Inigo" is thirty years old and dreams only of military glory.
Inigo is the nickname of Ignatius of Loyola.
In 1521, this impetuous Spanish knight defends the city of Pamplona, in Navarre, against the assaults of the Franco-Navarrese troops of François Ier.
Wounded in one leg, he fights like a lion until a cannonball breaks his other leg.
He is down and for a long time.
Handicapped for life, a slow interior conversion to Christ takes place in him.
It will lead this dazzling character to found the Company of Jesus, in Montmartre in Paris in 1534. He will be canonized in 1622.
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