SAINT IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA PERSONAL WRITING
SAINT IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA
PERSONAL WRITINGS
IGNATIUS LOYOLA (1491–1556), youngest son in a noble Basque family,
was trained as a page at the court of Castile. He was wounded at the
siege of Pamplona (1521), and while convalescing underwent a deep
conversion experience. He retired for a year of re ection to
Manresa, the notes jotted at that time forming the basis of the
in uential Spiritual Exercises. After a hazardous pilgrimage to
Jerusalem, he undertook prolonged studies (mainly in Paris),
gradually attracting like-minded students. They took vows in 1534
and shortly afterwards formed what they called the ‘Society of
Jesus’ (popularly known as the ‘Jesuits’). From 1540, when Ignatius
was elected Superior General, he lived in Rome organizing, largely
through a series of Letters, the astonishing spread of the Jesuits. He
was canonized (along with his disciple, Francis Xavier, and Teresa
of Avila) in 1622.
JOSEPH A. MUNITIZwas born in Cardi in 1931 of Basque parents and
educated in Wales and England, before spending three years in
Spain. His years of study as a Jesuit included spells in London,
Oxford, Spain and Italy. After doctoral work in Paris, he joined the
sta of the Corpus Christianorum, Louvain, and then returned to edit
the Heythrop Journal in London. He served as Master of Campion
Hall, 1989–98, and retired to become an Honorary Research Fellow
of the Centre for Byzantine Studies at the University of Birmingham.
He maintains his interest in Jesuit studies as Assistant Novice Master
in Harborne (Birmingham).
,PHILIP ENDEAN was born in 1954. He read English at Merton College,
Oxford, before entering the Society of Jesus in 1977. During his
training as a Jesuit he lived in Mexico, the USA, Germany and
Austria as well as in the UK. He has worked as a hospital chaplain in
Manchester and as a lecturer in theology as Heythrop College,
University of London. He now teaches theology at the University of
Oxford, and is editor of The Way, a journal of Christian spirituality
published by the British Jesuits.
,SAINT IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA Personal Writings
Reminiscences, Spiritual Diary, Select Letters
including the text of The Spiritual Exercises
Translated with Introductions and Notes by
JOSEPH A. MUNITIZ and PHILIP ENDEAN
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SAINT IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA
PERSONAL WRITINGS
IGNATIUS LOYOLA (1491–1556), youngest son in a noble Basque family,
was trained as a page at the court of Castile. He was wounded at the
siege of Pamplona (1521), and while convalescing underwent a deep
conversion experience. He retired for a year of re ection to
Manresa, the notes jotted at that time forming the basis of the
in uential Spiritual Exercises. After a hazardous pilgrimage to
Jerusalem, he undertook prolonged studies (mainly in Paris),
gradually attracting like-minded students. They took vows in 1534
and shortly afterwards formed what they called the ‘Society of
Jesus’ (popularly known as the ‘Jesuits’). From 1540, when Ignatius
was elected Superior General, he lived in Rome organizing, largely
through a series of Letters, the astonishing spread of the Jesuits. He
was canonized (along with his disciple, Francis Xavier, and Teresa
of Avila) in 1622.
JOSEPH A. MUNITIZwas born in Cardi in 1931 of Basque parents and
educated in Wales and England, before spending three years in
Spain. His years of study as a Jesuit included spells in London,
Oxford, Spain and Italy. After doctoral work in Paris, he joined the
sta of the Corpus Christianorum, Louvain, and then returned to edit
the Heythrop Journal in London. He served as Master of Campion
Hall, 1989–98, and retired to become an Honorary Research Fellow
of the Centre for Byzantine Studies at the University of Birmingham.
He maintains his interest in Jesuit studies as Assistant Novice Master
in Harborne (Birmingham).
,PHILIP ENDEAN was born in 1954. He read English at Merton College,
Oxford, before entering the Society of Jesus in 1977. During his
training as a Jesuit he lived in Mexico, the USA, Germany and
Austria as well as in the UK. He has worked as a hospital chaplain in
Manchester and as a lecturer in theology as Heythrop College,
University of London. He now teaches theology at the University of
Oxford, and is editor of The Way, a journal of Christian spirituality
published by the British Jesuits.
,SAINT IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA Personal Writings
Reminiscences, Spiritual Diary, Select Letters
including the text of The Spiritual Exercises
Translated with Introductions and Notes by
JOSEPH A. MUNITIZ and PHILIP ENDEAN
PENGUIN BOOKS
, PENGUIN BOOKS
Published by the Penguin Group
Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England
Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York
10014, USA
Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell,
Victoria 3124, Australia
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Canada M4V 3B2
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Park, New Delhi – 110 017, India
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Auckland 1310, New Zealand
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Rosebank 2196, South Africa
Penguin Books Ltd, Registered O ces: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL,
England
www.penguin.com
First published 1996
Reprinted with updates to Bibliography 2004
13
Translations, introductions and notes copyright © Joseph A. Munitiz
and Philip Endean, 1996, 2004
All rights reserved
The moral right of the translators has been asserted
Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to
the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent,
re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s
