Thus he was chased out of Spain by the church he sought to serve.

Turning his steps to Paris he entered the College of Montaigu, and, if he here was free from the Inquisition he was publicly whipped by the college authorities as a dangerous fanatic.

Nevertheless, here he gathered his first permanent disciples, Peter Le Fevre of Savoy, Francis Xavier of Pampeluna and two Castilians, {401} James Laynez and Alfonso Salmeron.

The little man, hardly over five feet two inches high, deformed and scarred, at the age of thirty-five, won men to him by his smile, as of a conqueror in pain, by his enthusiasm, his mission and his book.
[Sidenote: _The Spiritual Exercises_] If one reckons the greatness of a piece of literature not by the beauty of the style or the profundity of the thought but by the influence it has exercised over men, the _Spiritual Exercises_ of Ignatius will rank high.
Its chief sources were the meditation and observation of its author.

If he took some things from Garcia de Cisneros, some from _The Imitation of Christ_, some from the rules of Montaigu, where he studied, far more he took from the course of discipline to which he had subjected himself at Manresa.