Ignatius of Loyola
Autograph Directory and dictated directories
Written work
Autograph Directory and dictated directories
Directorio autógrafo

Practical advice for those who guide the Exercises: how to dispose the retreatant, how to adapt the pace, when to propose the election. They are the author's own first reflection on how his book should be used.
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Authorship note
Ignatius's brief notes on how to give the Exercises, together with instructions dictated to Vitoria, Polanco and others; edited in Monumenta Ignatiana, Exercitia spiritualia et eorum directoria (1919, 1955). The official Directory of 1599 is later and not his.
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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
- Instruction for those going to Trent · 1546
- Rules of the Society (common rules and rules of modesty) · 1555
- 'Anima Christi' (misattribution) · 1350
- Ignatian Sparks (Scintillae Ignatianae) · 1705
Sources
- Ignacio de Loyola. Obras. Transcripción, introducciones y notas de Ignacio Iparraguirre, Cándido de Dalmases y Manuel Ruiz Jurado. Madrid: Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos, 1991 (5.ª ed.). ISBN 9788479140342.
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