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The Basilica of Saint Ignatius Sanctuary of Loyola (Santuario de Loiola): Basque Country, Spain

The Basilica of Saint Ignatius Sanctuary of Loyola (Santuario de Loiola) or the Shrine and Basilica of Loyola, located in the Basque Country in Spain, consists of a series of edifices built in Baroque style around the birthplace of St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus. The first stone was laid on 28th March 1689 and the building was dedicated on 31st July 1738, the feast of St. Ignatius. The whole structure, on which up to 600 masons worked, was made of large blocks of limestone quarried from Mount Izarraitz. Ignatius of Loyola, whose real name was Iñigo López de Loyola, was the son of the Lord of Loyola, Beltrán Ibáñez de Oñaz and Marina Sánchez de Licona, member of an important Biscayan family. He was born in 1491 in his family house in Loyola. After he died his birthplace became a place of veneration. In the seventeenth century the house where he was born was given to the Society of Jesus. The Order was built there, the birthplace of its founder, the Sanctuary of Loyola. In 1900 the Society commissioned an altar for the sanctuary, employing metalwork artist Plácido Zuloaga, who had won international success creating intricate artworks by damascening, a technique which inlays gold and silver into iron. Zuloaga's iron structure houses panels depicting the life of St. Ignatius and supports a damascened crucifix and candlesticks from the workshop of José Felipe Artamendi.