Exercitia spiritualia

Spiritual Exercises

Author

Ignatius of Loyola

Language

Spanish, Neo-Latin

Year

1548

Country

Spain

Genre

Nonfiction / Essays / Treatise

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The Spiritual Exercises, composed 1522–1524, are a set of Christian meditations, contemplations, and prayers written by Ignatius of Loyola, a 16th-century Spanish Catholic priest, theologian, and founder of the Society of Jesus. Their influence was tremendous, but they were not original, being "nothing but a compilation of pre-existing meditations for self-cultivation."