The indissoluble connection between Rome, Spain, and the Jesuits, was apparent to all unprejudiced observers.

For this triad of reactionary and belligerent forces Sarpi invented the name of the Diacatholicon, alluding, under the metaphor of a drug, to the virus which was being instilled in his days into all the States of Europe.[157] The founder of the Jesuit order was the thirteenth child of a Spanish noble, born in 1491 at his father's castle of Loyola in the Basque province of Guipuzcoa.[158] His full name was Inigo Lopez de Recalde; but he is better known to history as Saint Ignatius Loyola.

Ignatius spent his boyhood as page in the service of King Ferdinand the Catholic, whence he passed into that of the Duke of Najara, who was the hereditary friend and patron of his family.

At this time he thought of nothing but feats of arms, military glory, and romantic adventures.
[Footnote 157: For Sarpi's use of this phrase see his _Lettere_, vol.
ii.pp.72, 80, 92.

He clearly recognized the solidarity between the Jesuits and Spain.