Jérôme Nadal (in Spanish: Jerónimo Nadal) was born on 11 August 1507 in Palma De Mallorca, in the Balearic Islands, Spain, and died on 3 April 1580 in Rome.
He was a Spanish Jesuit priest in the first generation of the companions of St.
Ignatius of Loyola.
A very close collaborator of the Ignatius, the founder of the Society of Jesus, he was sent to explain to the various Jesuit communities of Europe the first draft of the Constitutions.
He is known as the "Ignatian theologian" for having developed the theology behind Ignatian spirituality.