Correspondence
Letters and Instructions
Epistolae et instructiones
Most of it is administrative correspondence: postings, colleges, finances, relations with princes and bishops. Among it are first-rate pieces of spiritual direction —the letters to Teresa Rejadell (1536) on discernment, to the students of Coimbra on perfection (1547), to the Jesuits of Portugal on obedience (1553)— and a remarkable correspondence with women of every condition, from Isabel Roser to Joanna of Austria. It shows the mystic turned meticulous organiser.
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Authorship note
Some 6,800 letters and instructions survive, written between 1524 and 1556 in Spanish, Italian and Latin. Many were drafted by his secretaries —above all Polanco from 1547— 'on his commission'; those in his own hand or personally dictated are a minority. Critical edition: Monumenta Ignatiana, Epistolae et instructiones, 12 vols., Madrid, 1903–1911.
Editions and translations
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English
Saint Ignatius Loyola: Letters to Women
Herder / Crossroad, 1960
ISBN 9780824524753
Edición y estudio de Hugo Rahner; reimpresión de Herder & Herder, 2007.
Ignatius of Loyola
Letters and Instructions of St. Ignatius Loyola
The Conscious LibraryLetters and Instructions of St. Ignatius Loyola
B. Herder, 1914
Translation: D. F. O'Leary
Edición de Alban Goodier (vol. I).
Español
Ignatius of Loyola
Cartas de San Ignacio de Loyola
The Conscious LibraryCartas de San Ignacio de Loyola
Imprenta de la Viuda e Hijo de D. E. Aguado, 1874
Edición en 6 vols. (1874–1889) de Juan José de la Torre, Antonio Cabré y Miguel Mir.
Obras
Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos, 1991
ISBN 9788479140342
Selección amplia de cartas e instrucciones.
Français
Ignatius of Loyola
Lettres
The Conscious LibraryLettres
Desclée de Brouwer, 1959
Translation: Gervais Dumeige
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
- 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
- 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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