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It has been used as a rallying cry for <a href="/wiki/Catholics" class="mw-redirect" title="Catholics">Catholics</a> throughout history, especially during the <a href="/wiki/Thirty_Year%27s_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Thirty Year's War">Thirty Year's War</a>, and is currently the <a href="/wiki/Motto" title="Motto">motto</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Society_of_Jesus" class="mw-redirect" title="Society of Jesus">Society of Jesus</a> (Jesuits), an order of the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Meaning">Meaning</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ad_maiorem_Dei_gloriam&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Meaning"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The origin of the phrase is attributed to the founder of the Jesuits, <a href="/wiki/Ignatius_of_Loyola" title="Ignatius of Loyola">Saint Ignatius of Loyola</a>, who intended it to serve as a cornerstone sentiment of the society's religious philosophy. The full phrase attributed to St. Ignatius is <i>Ad maiorem Dei gloriam inque hominum salutem</i> or "for the greater glory of God and the salvation of humanity." It is a summary of the idea that any work that is not evil, even one that would normally be considered inconsequential to the spiritual life, can be spiritually meritorious if it is performed in order to give glory to God.<sup id="cite_ref-Hopfl_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hopfl-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jesu%C3%AFtes_de_Sarri%C3%A0_-_ad_maiorem_Dei_gloriam.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Jesu%C3%AFtes_de_Sarri%C3%A0_-_ad_maiorem_Dei_gloriam.jpg/220px-Jesu%C3%AFtes_de_Sarri%C3%A0_-_ad_maiorem_Dei_gloriam.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="196" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Jesu%C3%AFtes_de_Sarri%C3%A0_-_ad_maiorem_Dei_gloriam.jpg/330px-Jesu%C3%AFtes_de_Sarri%C3%A0_-_ad_maiorem_Dei_gloriam.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Jesu%C3%AFtes_de_Sarri%C3%A0_-_ad_maiorem_Dei_gloriam.jpg/440px-Jesu%C3%AFtes_de_Sarri%C3%A0_-_ad_maiorem_Dei_gloriam.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1665" data-file-height="1485" /></a><figcaption><i>Ad maiorem Dei gloriam</i></figcaption></figure> <p>A common Jesuit emblem depicts the mottos surrounding the initials IHS. IHS is a Greek monogram composed by three letters (iota, eta and sigma) for the first three letters in the name Jesus used since the 3rd century as an abbreviation. "St. Ignatius of Loyola adopted the monogram in his seal as general of the Society of Jesus (1541), and thus it became the emblem of his institute. IHS was sometimes wrongly understood as 'Jesus Hominum (or Hierosolymae) Salvator', i.e. Jesus, the Saviour of men (or of Jerusalem=Hierosolymae). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Use">Use</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ad_maiorem_Dei_gloriam&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Use"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When images of Saint Ignatius depict him carrying a book, the motto is often inscribed within—representative of the <a href="/wiki/Spiritual_Exercises_of_Ignatius_of_Loyola" class="mw-redirect" title="Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola">religious writings</a> of the saint. </p><p>This phrase is the motto of many Jesuit educational institutions, including eight of the twenty-eight members of the <a href="/wiki/Association_of_Jesuit_Colleges_and_Universities" title="Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities">Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities</a>, and many high schools worldwide. In <a href="/wiki/Georgetown_University" title="Georgetown University">Georgetown University</a>'s Gaston Hall, the phrase is followed by <i>inque hominum salutem</i>, producing a longer phrase: "For the greater glory of God and the salvation of humanity."<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Typical of the buildings of many Jesuit institutions, the cornerstones of those on <a href="/wiki/Fordham_University" title="Fordham University">Fordham University</a>'s campus bear the inscribed abbreviation “AMDG”, and the school's University Church hosts the 2,776-pipe “Maior Dei Gloria” organ, which derives its name from the motto.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It once was common for students at Jesuit schools and universities to write the initials at the tops of their pages, to remind them that even their schoolwork ought to be dedicated to the glory of God.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-loyola_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-loyola-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The abbreviation was frequently included in the signatures of <a href="/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II" title="Pope John Paul II">Pope John Paul II</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2011)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The motto of the Catholic fraternity <a href="/wiki/Alpha_Delta_Gamma" title="Alpha Delta Gamma">Alpha Delta Gamma</a> is <i>Ad Dei Gloriam</i>, which translates to "For the Glory of God." This motto is the origin of fraternity's name, as the Roman initials "ADG" are rendered in Greek with the letters alpha, delta, and gamma. </p><p>It is repeatedly quoted by the Jesuit character in <a href="/wiki/Flann_O%27Brien" title="Flann O'Brien">Flann O'Brien</a>'s book <i><a href="/wiki/The_Hard_Life" title="The Hard Life">The Hard Life</a></i>. Sir <a href="/wiki/Edward_Elgar" title="Edward Elgar">Edward Elgar</a> used it as the dedication of his setting of <a href="/wiki/John_Henry_Newman" title="John Henry Newman">Cardinal Newman</a>'s poem <i><a href="/wiki/The_Dream_of_Gerontius" title="The Dream of Gerontius">The Dream of Gerontius</a></i>. In 1939, <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Britten" title="Benjamin Britten">Benjamin Britten</a> wrote a choral piece <i>A.M.D.G.</i> (Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam) of seven settings of <a href="/wiki/Gerard_Manley_Hopkins" title="Gerard Manley Hopkins">Gerard Manley Hopkins</a>. In 2014, American <a href="/wiki/Liturgy" title="Liturgy">liturgical</a> composer, <a href="/wiki/Dan_Schutte" title="Dan Schutte">Dan Schutte</a> wrote the piece <i>Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam</i> for worship hymnals and missals. <sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Ad majorem Dei gloriam</i> appears in the credits of <a href="/wiki/Martin_Scorsese" title="Martin Scorsese">Martin Scorsese</a>'s movie about Jesuits in Japan, <i><a href="/wiki/Silence_(2016_film)" title="Silence (2016 film)">Silence</a></i>. The 2000 novel <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=La_carta_esf%C3%A9rica_(novel)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="La carta esférica (novel) (page does not exist)">La carta esférica</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Arturo_P%C3%A9rez-Reverte" title="Arturo Pérez-Reverte">Arturo Pérez-Reverte</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=La_carta_esf%C3%A9rica_(film)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="La carta esférica (film) (page does not exist)">its 2007 film version</a> deal with the wreck of the <i>Dei Gloria</i>, a fictional ship freighted by the Jesuits. 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Fingleton">Fingleton</a> was a strong Catholic, so much so that he began his cricket books with the letters that Catholic schoolchildren used to put at the top of every page of their exercise books—AMDG—which stood for 'Ad majorem Dei gloriam', meaning 'To the greater glory of God'."<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="References">References</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ad_maiorem_Dei_gloriam&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Hopfl-2"><span 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style="background-color:gold;width:1%">History</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Reformation" title="Reformation">Protestant Reformation</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Counter-Reformation" title="Counter-Reformation">Counter-Reformation</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Spiritual_Exercises" title="Spiritual Exercises">Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola</a></i></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ad maiorem Dei gloriam</a></i></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Magis" title="Magis">Magis</a></i></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Regimini_militantis_Ecclesiae" title="Regimini militantis Ecclesiae">Regimini militantis Ecclesiae</a></i></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Exposcit_debitum" title="Exposcit 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