Martín Ignacio de Loyola

Martín Ignacio Martínez de Mallea, known as Martín Ignacio de Loyola, was a Franciscan friar, best known for his two travels around the world in 1580-1584 and 1585-1589, being the first person to complete the world circumnavigation twice, and for his missionary effort in China.He was a grandnephew of Ignatius of Loyola, and was ordained a priest in Alaejos in 1572.Loyola's account of his first travel around the world was first published in Rome in 1586, included in Juan González de Mendoza's Hi ...