by Jim Manney

Let’s take a moment in IgnatiusFest to think about the men who first followed Ignatius. We wouldn’t be here without Ignatius, but we wouldn’t be here without the first companions either. They were a handful of students who met Ignatius at the University of Paris. They made the bold decision to join their lives together in a radical fellowship. It was a crucial moment. As the narrator of this video says, “the first follower turns a lone nut into a leader.”

The video explains how movements get started. Watch it with Ignatius’s first companions in mind. (Click here to see the video on YouTube.)