Traditional attribution
Ignatian Sparks (Scintillae Ignatianae)
Scintillae Ignatianae
One maxim for each day of the year, translated into Spanish in the eighteenth century as Centellas ignacianas. For three centuries it has fed the popular image of Ignatius and is the origin of several apocryphal quotations that circulate under his name.
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Authorship note
A collection of sayings attributed to Ignatius, assembled by the Hungarian Jesuit Gabriel Hevenesi and published in Vienna in 1705, a century and a half after his death. Many maxims summarise or rework authentic texts; others have no identifiable source. The famous rule about trusting God as if everything depended on oneself comes from here.
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Español
Ignatius of Loyola
Centellas ignacianas
The Conscious LibraryCentellas ignacianas
Francisco Sánchez Reciente, 1753
Translation: Pedro Muñoz de Zárate
Traducción castellana (HathiTrust).
Other works by Ignatius of Loyola
- Spiritual Exercises · 1548
- Autobiography (A Pilgrim's Testament) · 1555
- Constitutions of the Society of Jesus · 1556
- Spiritual Diary · 1544
- Letters and Instructions · 1556
- Letter to Teresa Rejadell · 1536
- Letter on Perfection (to the students at Coimbra) · 1547
- Letter on Obedience · 1553
- Formula of the Institute · 1539
- Deliberation of the First Fathers · 1539
- Deliberation on Poverty · 1544
- Autograph Directory and dictated directories · 1555
- Instruction for those going to Trent · 1546
- Rules of the Society (common rules and rules of modesty) · 1555
- 'Anima Christi' (misattribution) · 1350
Sources
- Hevenesi, Gabriel. Scintillae Ignatianae, sive S. P. Ignatii de Loyola sententiae et effata sacra. Viena, 1705.
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