Friday, May 23, 2008

Autobiography of St. Ignatius Loyola

St. Ignatius Loyola, The Autobiography of St. Ignatius of Loyola, ed. John C. Olin (New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1974).

The most obvious initial point of this work is that it wasn't written by Ignatius, but rather, he told the story to Luis Gonclaves de Camara who later wrote it all down after these spoken sessions. Camara claims that he added not a word that wasn't uttered by Ignatius, but in all probability Camara saw fit not to record Ignatius' account of his early life.

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