Spirituality: The mystical illumination of Ignatius at the River Cardoner

After a period of intense prayer, Inigo de Loyola sat on the banks of the Cardoner River in Manresa, Spain where he daydreamed. He received an illumination from God that was so intense that he personally appropriated the mysteries of the faith.

He writes in his autobiography:

While he was seated there, the eyes of his understanding began to be opened; not that he saw any vision, but he understood and learned many things, both spiritual matters and matters of faith and scholarship, and this with so great an enlightenment that everything seemed new to him.

This left his understanding so enlightened that he felt as if he were another man with another mind.