IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA Saint Exercitia spiritualia 1576

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IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA, Saint. Exercitia spiritualia. Jesuit woodcut device on title. 276 [i. e., 280], [8] pages. 16mo, 102x66 mm, 18th-century sheep gilt, spine slightly wormed, chipped at top, joints starting; contents generally clean, dog-eared at beginning and end, some headlines cropped. Bound at end are 4 leaves with handwritten text of indulgences granted by Pope Gregory XIII. Rome: in Collegio Societatis Jesu, 1576

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Fifth edition; the first was published in 1548. "The ''Spiritual Exercises'' form the most famous modern textbook on ascetic discipline, the nature of sin, and Christian perfection by grace . . . As a work of religious inspiration the impact of the ''Exercises'' has been almost as great outside the Society of Jesus as within"--Printing and the Mind of Man 74. Palau 291088 (giving variant pagination).