Ignatius of Loyola
'Anima Christi' (misattribution)
Traditional attribution
'Anima Christi' (misattribution)
Anima Christi
A medieval Eucharistic prayer ('Soul of Christ, sanctify me; Body of Christ, save me…') which the Exercises cite as a formula for colloquy. It is recorded here to flag a confusion common in prayer books and online.
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Authorship note
Spurious. This prayer, which heads many editions of the Exercises because Ignatius recommends it, was already in circulation in the fourteenth century (it survives in a British Museum manuscript of about 1370, in the prayer book of Cardinal Pierre de Luxembourg, †1387, and in an inscription in the Alcázar of Seville from the time of Peter I). The attribution to Ignatius is popular and mistaken.
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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
- Ignatian Sparks (Scintillae Ignatianae) · 1705
Sources
- Frisbee, S. H. «Anima Christi». The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton, 1907 (texto en Wikisource).
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