This account of the life of St. Ignatius, dictated by himself, is
considered by the Bollandists the most valuable record of the great
Founder of the Society of Jesus. The editors of the Stimmen Aus
Maria Laach, the German review, as well as those of the English
magazine, The Month, tell us that it, more than any other work,
gives an insight into the spiritual life of St. Ignatius. Few works
in ascetical literature, except the writings of St. Teresa and St.
Augustine, impart such a knowledge of the soul. To understand fully
the Spiritual Exercises, we should know something of the man who
wrote them. In this life of St. Ignatius, told in his own words, we
acquire an intimate knowledge of the author of the Exercises. We
discern the Saint's natural disposition, which was the foundation
of his spiritual character. We learn of his conversion, his trials,
the obstacles in his way, the heroism with which he accomplished
his great mission. This autobiography of St. Ignatius is the
groundwork of all the great lives of him that have been written.
Bartoli draws from it, Genelli develops it, the recent magnificent
works of Father Clair, S.J., and of Stewart Rose are amplifications
of this simple story of the life of St. Ignatius. The Saint in his
narrative always refers to himself in the third person, and this
mode of speech has here been retained. Many persons who have
neither the time, nor, perhaps, the inclination, to read larger
works, will read, we trust, with pleasure and profit this
autobiography. Ignatius, as he lay wounded in his brother's house,
read the lives of the saints to while away the time. Touched by
grace, he cried, "What St. Francis and St. Dominic have done, that,
by God's grace, I will do." May this little book, in like manner,
inspire its readers with the desire of imitating St. Ignatius. THE
EDITOR. Easter, 1900. College of St. Francis Xavier, New York.
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