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The Autobiography of St. Ignatius Loyola, with Related Documents
by Joseph F. O'Callaghan.
The Autobiography of Loyola was not actually written by him but rather dictated by him to a fellow of his order. It was written exactly as it was spoken and so reads a like a transcript or outline rather than a story of a life and so leaves something wanting, yet it cannot be doubted from the text that it was an extraordinary life.
Some impressing points were:1- Loyola was an man who could endure extreme suffering rather out of pride as with his leg or out of faith as with his regular overwhelmi
The Autobiography of Loyola was not actually written by him but rather dictated by him to a fellow of his order. It was written exactly as it was spoken and so reads a like a transcript or outline rather than a story of a life and so leaves something wanting, yet it cannot be doubted from the text that it was an extraordinary life.
Some impressing points were:1- Loyola was an man who could endure extreme suffering rather out of pride as with his leg or out of faith as with his regular overwhelming regiment of penance. 2- His detachment from his own success and his own life are exemplary. He was ready to die at any moment saying of any scheduled work- "I will do such and such if I am still alive tomorrow." He was able to endure such penance daily because he was never sure that he would be alive tomorrow to have to endure more. 3- He was a man whose great ambition (rather in court or in building the society) which was matched only by his great humility (he saw nothing good as coming from himself but from God) and his great love (for which he sought out the salvation of so many souls).
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