The Autobiography of St. Ignatius Loyola: With Related Documents (Revised) - Softcover

John C. Olin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 082321480X ISBN 13: 9780823214808

Publisher: Fordham University Press, 1993

Synopsis

From the Introduction: “The autobiography...does not cover the complete life of Ignatius. It begins abruptly in 1521 at the great turning point in the saint’s life – his injury in the battle of Pamplona when the French occupied that town and attacked its citadel. It then spans the next seventeen years up to the arrival of Ignatius and his early companions in Rome...These years are the central years of Ignatius’s life. They are the years...that open with his religious conversion and that witness his spiritual growth. They are the years of pilgrimage, to use his own designation, of active travel and searching, and of interior progress in the Christian life. They are the years of preparation for the establishment of the great religious order he will found and for its dynamic thrust in the turbulent Europe and the expanding world of his day.”

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Review:

“Ably translated . . . Ignatius’ autobiography is personal history in the richest sense of the word. It is authentic, it is graphic, it has depth, it marvelously conveys the sense of movement and development beginning abruptly in 1521 at the great turning point in the saint’s life.” Source: ―Wisconsin Bookwatch

Synopsis:

Toward the end of his life, St Ignatius Loyola related the story of his earlier years - his pilgrim years - to an associate in Rome. He had lived and travelled, studied and taught, in a tumultuous world, and his religious experience, as profound or even mystical as it was, occurred in the context of history. He was aware of this, and he related the story of his most formative years with as lively a sense of actual circumstance as of divine direction. The "contemplatio in actione" that is said to characterise his mature spirituality finds its expression, and perhaps its source, in innate realism - that is, in his openness to life and in his day-to-day involvement in it. The autobiography begins abruptly in 1521 at the great turning point in the saint's life - his injury when the French occupied that town and attacked its citadel. It then spans the next 17 years up to the arrival of Ignatius in Rome. They were the years of preparation for the establishment of the great religious order he founded and for its dynamic thrust in the turbulent Europe and the expanding world of his day.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 082321480X
• ISBN 13: 9780823214808
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 113