NaNo = ONOZ!
Got my big new NaNo idea very early this year.
Which is cool. But.
What. Even.
It's the life of Inigo de Loyola, aka St. Ignatius, the founder of the Jesuits.
O_O
Okay, I'm not even Catholic. I just learned about his life story for the first time yesterday. You could have knocked me over with a feather. THE DUDE SAW A DRAGON.
From his autobiography, A Pilgrim’s Journey, section 19: after his conversion, he saw “a form in the air near him and this form gave him much consolation because it was exceedingly beautiful … it somehow seemed to have the shape of a serpent and had many things that shone like eyes, but were not eyes. He received much delight and consolation from gazing upon this object … but when the object vanished he became disconsolate.” He saw this over 15 years and eventually decided it was the devil ):
Nobody tells you these things!!!
If you ever wondered who the heck was St Francis Xavier, the guy so many high schools are named after??? Inigo's college Roommate, i kid you not. No relation to Charles Xavier (as far as I know...)... except I guess if your last name is Xavier you feel compelled to open schools for gifted youngsters?
And why did Inigo become a mystic? Because his life as a swashbuckling cavalier was cut short by HAVING HIS LEG SHATTERED BY CANNONBALL. !!!
It's like, now I'm writing in my head the weird Matt Murdock AU where Matt is a 16th century Basque swashbuckler and Foggy is, wait for it, HIS COLLEGE ROOMMATE. Elektra guest stars as a very beautiful Serpent, but when she vanishes, he is disconsolate. LOLZ.
PS His real name was Inigo. Yes, like Inigo Montoya. Except I don't think anybody killed his father. Except if you see his father as Christ. LOLZ. "HALLO. My name is Inigo Loyola. You killed my father.* Prepare to receive an excellent Catholic school education!!"
*Much like Buffy or the Winchesters, it didn't take.
Which is cool. But.
What. Even.
It's the life of Inigo de Loyola, aka St. Ignatius, the founder of the Jesuits.
O_O
Okay, I'm not even Catholic. I just learned about his life story for the first time yesterday. You could have knocked me over with a feather. THE DUDE SAW A DRAGON.
From his autobiography, A Pilgrim’s Journey, section 19: after his conversion, he saw “a form in the air near him and this form gave him much consolation because it was exceedingly beautiful … it somehow seemed to have the shape of a serpent and had many things that shone like eyes, but were not eyes. He received much delight and consolation from gazing upon this object … but when the object vanished he became disconsolate.” He saw this over 15 years and eventually decided it was the devil ):
Nobody tells you these things!!!
If you ever wondered who the heck was St Francis Xavier, the guy so many high schools are named after??? Inigo's college Roommate, i kid you not. No relation to Charles Xavier (as far as I know...)... except I guess if your last name is Xavier you feel compelled to open schools for gifted youngsters?
And why did Inigo become a mystic? Because his life as a swashbuckling cavalier was cut short by HAVING HIS LEG SHATTERED BY CANNONBALL. !!!
It's like, now I'm writing in my head the weird Matt Murdock AU where Matt is a 16th century Basque swashbuckler and Foggy is, wait for it, HIS COLLEGE ROOMMATE. Elektra guest stars as a very beautiful Serpent, but when she vanishes, he is disconsolate. LOLZ.
PS His real name was Inigo. Yes, like Inigo Montoya. Except I don't think anybody killed his father. Except if you see his father as Christ. LOLZ. "HALLO. My name is Inigo Loyola. You killed my father.* Prepare to receive an excellent Catholic school education!!"
*Much like Buffy or the Winchesters, it didn't take.