The author of Suscipe: St. Ignatius Loyola

Today is the day of St. Ignatius Loyola, who gave to us the Society of Jesus, the Spiritual Exercises, some really good guidelines for the discernment of spirits, and the prayer Anima Christi, as well as that frighteningly challenging hymn Suscipe, which I blogged a few days ago.

And it all began with a war wound, a bout of bed rest, and a castle with an extremely limited library. When Ignatius asked for some good juicy chivalric romances to help make the time pass, the best his kin could come up with was a volume of the Lives of the Saints. In such humble ways great conversions begin.
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