Loyola, St. Ignatius, his birth,
  261; enters upon religious work,
  262; his pilgrimage to the Holy
  Land, 263; his education, 263;
imprisonments, 263; founds Society
  of Jesus, 264; his “Spiritual
  Exercises,” 265, 267; on
  obedience, 267; his mission,
  276; Sherman on, 278; compared
  with Hamilcar, 409. See
  Society of Jesus. 
Lucius, a British king, embraces
  Christianity, 124. 
Luther, influence of, in history, 92;
  an Augustinian monk, 118;
  Henry VIII. attacks, 293. 
Lytton, his views of Jesuits denounced,
  278.

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Macarius, the hermit, 49. 
Macaulay, his views of Jesuits
  opposed, 278; on the aims of
  Jesuits, 283; on the Roman
  Church, 402. 
Mabie, H.W., on the monks
  and the classics, 408. 
Mahomet, Carlyle on, 33. 
Maitland, on Benedictine monasteries,
  155. 
Maitre, on desecration of cloisters,
  350. 
Malmesbury, his charges against
  the monks, 173. 
Manicheism, relation of, to Albigensians,
  233. 
Marcella, St., Jerome on life of,
  102; her austerities and charity,
  103. 
Maria dei Angeli, Sta., Francis
  hears call in church of, 214. 
Marriage, Basil on, 66; how
  esteemed in Rome, 110; Gibbon
  on, in Rome, 110; Jerome
  and Augustine on, 112;
  vow of celibacy and, 381. 
Married life in Rome, Jerome on,
  114. 
Martensen, on ascetics, 391; on
  solitude and society, 395. 
Martin, St., of Tours, credibility
  of biography of, 119; sketch
  of his life, 120; his death, 122;
  churches and shrines in honor
  of, 122. 
Martinmas, 122. 
Materialism, monasticism and, 350,
  413; of the West, 371. 
Mathews, Shailer, on Christ and
  riches, 379. 
Matthew of Paris, on prosperity
  of friars, 246. 
Maur, St., walks on water, 137. 
Maximilian, of Bavaria, educated
  by Jesuits, 277. 
Melrose Abbey, 289. 
Mendicant Friars, The, 205; success
  of, 242, 255; their value
  to Rome, 243; confined to four
  societies, 246; quarrels among,
  246; their educational work,
  248; in England, 251; decline
  of, 253; as preachers, 244;
  254; effects of prosperity on,
  256. 
Mendicity of monks, 245. 
Milan, church of, Emperor refused
  entrance to the, 115. 
Military-religious orders, their origin,
  labors and decline, 197. 
Militia of Jesus Christ, 242. 
Mill, John Stuart, on preaching
  friars, 244. 
Milman, on the early church leaders,
  129; on dream of Dominic’s mother, 231;
on bigotry of monks, 395;
  on monks and natural affections, 398. 
Milton, contrasted to monks, 394. 
Miracles, 224.
  See Anthony, Stylites, St. Martin, etc. 
Missionary labors, of monks, 148, 171, 398;
  of the Jesuits, 280, 281.