This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ... BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX. Of all the early Lives of St. Ignatius, the best known is that which was written by Father Ribadeneira at the command of St. Francis Borgia when General of the Society of Jesus. The first draft, which the author afterwards amplified, was completed before 1572, and was printed ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ... BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX. Of all the early Lives of St. Ignatius, the best known is that which was written by Father Ribadeneira at the command of St. Francis Borgia when General of the Society of Jesus. The first draft, which the author afterwards amplified, was completed before 1572, and was printed at Naples in that year. Ribadeneira dedicated the work to his religious brethren of the Society, prefixing a prologue, specially addressed to them, in which, after speaking of his own intimate personal acquaintance with the Saint, he makes reference to the other sources whence he had derived his knowledge, and more especially to that narrative of St. Ignatius himself, which is translated in the present volume. "In the second place," writes Ribadeneira, M we shall set forth those particulars which our Father himself, overcome by the constant solicitations of many years and by the importunity of nearly all our Fathers, disclosed to Father Louis Gonzalez concerning his early life, and that only in the year before he died, after long meditation and prayer to God. "For from the time that our Society was first founded, and the glorious radiance of all those virtues with which God had endowed the soul of His servant Ignatius had begun to burst forth and to shine abroad, all we his children were inspired with an earnest longing to learn everything that we could concerning his history and his manner of life--by what means in sooth God had called him out of the world, with what beginnings, what progress, what consummation He had purified, illuminated, and perfected his soul. For it seemed only meet and reasonable that those who were the stones of this spiritual -edifice should know and thoroughly understand on what manner of foundation the...
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