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| Loyola Academy |
The name Loyola comes from, the ancestral castle that was the family home where Saint Ignatius was born in 1491, the last of a large Basque family of Spain. Pursuing a worldly career in the service of the king, he was wounded in the defense of Pamplona and taken prisoner. While convalescing, he was converted and turned from the service of an earthly ruler to that of his divine Master, Jesus Christ. He took to a life of prayer, penance and serious study and recorded his experience in the book of The Spiritual Exercises, which became the source and inspiration of all his followers. He gathered around him like-minded and motivated university men (like St. Francis Xavier, who came to India) to found the Society of Jesus in 1540.
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| The Jesuits |
The Jesuits are members of the Society of Jesus, one of the religious orders or organizations in the Catholic Church, founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola. All such organizations rest upon a common basis of three vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. Poverty by which each member commits himself to a simple and frugal life, chastity through which, without a family of his own and with purity of heart, he could serve everyone, and religious obedience through which he submits the details of his life to the decision taken in a community for the service of God and humanity.
However each of the religious orders is differentiated by its own special spirit and charisma and the Society of Jesus is specially pledged to complete obedience to the Pope, the vicar of Christ, with the motto: For the Greater Glory of God.
The Society of Jesus is a world-wide organization of religious men, numbering about 20,000 spread all over the world, of which nearly 4000 are working in the 22 Provinces of India. In Andhra Pradesh alone there are 205 Jesuits working in Schools and Colleges, Parishes, Social work centers, Tribal areas and other apostolates.
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| Loyola Academy Turns Autonoumous |
One of the recommendations of the U. G. C which has been encouraged by the New Educational Policy was the setting up of Autonomous Colleges by which the Commission hopes that "at least some of the better colleges would be freed from the unnecessary restraints of affiliation and by which such autonomous colleges would be encouraged to develop curricula suited to the students and their communities".
Loyola Academy Degree College has been granted autonomous status in recognition of the excellence of education consistently imparted by it and in view of the significant contribution it could make to the cause of education with adequate academic freedom and flexibility.
The goal of our college has been and will be under autonomy to serve the true interest of the whole nation community it will endeavour to ensure that through the college the perennial values of India's culture are transmitted new and relevant values generated talent and needed skills developed well directed social change promoted public spirited citizenship fostered and a broad international perspective encouraged.
The college also endorses the secular, democratic egalitarian ideals embodied in the Indian constitution and it will endeavour to strengthen these values in the young men and women it educates. It believes that the special need of the country today is for honest public men and women imbued with the sense of service free from prejudices based on caste, religion, race or language and devoted to the cause of social justice. While remembering that the function of the college is to foster intellectual excellence, we believe that this must be done in and through a total education having social and spiritual dimensions.
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