mental exercises.[5] The exercises of the book were designed to be carried out over a period of twenty eight to thirty days. He died in Rome on July 31, 1556, as a result of the Roman Fever, a severe case of malaria that recurred in Rome, Italy, at different points in history. Loyola was beatified in 1609, and canonized in 1622. Ignatius Loyola’s ideas on Christian education and spiritual formation were echoed in a number of later Papal encyclicals. In Divini Illius