I was fighting a battle one day with my fellow comrades and then BOOM! A cannon ball struck my leg. I was taken in by the enemy as a prisoner of war. My leg was in agony! Eventually I was released and sent back home to Spain where my leg was to be treated.
The pain was so powerful, it could drive a man to suicide. I had to get my mind off the pain and so I asked one of the nuns treating me if she can bring me a book on adventure or maybe something war-based.
They had none but only a book on Saints and the Holy Bible.
In pain I read and then my heart was moved by the greater glory of the Almighty. I had a conversion experience and once healed yet permanently crippled, I gave up my sword that served the Queen of Spain to the greater Queen of Heaven, the Immaculate One... the Blessed Virgin Mary!
Imitation of the Saints, higher education, teaching and then organizing... the Society of Jesus was founded and its mission was to help the Church confront the Modern World.
We are known for Counter- Reformation, The Best Damn Education, Loyalty To The Papacy, Faith And Good Works, Church Militancy, Getting Banned From Some National Borderlines Throughout History (it's all good now), Political Activism, Catholicism in Latin America, Catholicism in Asia, Catholicism in Africa and Catholicism North America.
We stepped into world and we said what had to be said. We took over some parts of the world and made her fall in love with us! Soon we will make America fall in love in joy as some parts of the world has experienced. We serve LOVE in joy!

¡Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam!