07/31/1556 AD died
Ignatius probably died of the "Roman Fever", a severe variant of malaria which was endemic in Rome throughout medieval history
An autopsy revealed that he also had kidney and bladder stones, a probable cause of the abdominal pains he suffered from in later life.
His body was dressed in his priestly robes and placed in a wooden coffin and buried in the crypt of the Maria della Strada Church on 1 August 1556. In 1568 the church was demolished and replaced with the Church of the Gesù. Ignatius' remains were reinterred in the new church in a new coffin.
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Ignatius of Loyola (Iñigo López de Oñaz y Loyola) Saint Ignatius of Loyola...
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