title: The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola: Three Retreats in Order: by Day and Hour (illustrated)
author: St. Ignatius of Loyola
description: Ignatius of Loyola was born Oct 23 1491 and was a Spanish knight from a local Basque noble family. He later became a priest in 1537, and is most known for his founding of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). He was canonized a saint in 1622. It is to this order that Pope Francis I belongs.
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  Nihil Obstat  
  Remigius Lafort, D.D.  
  Censor
  
  
  Imprimatur  
  John Cardinal Farley  
  Archbishop of New York  
  May 20, 1914
  
  
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  Copyright © 1914 by Frederick Pustet & Co., New York and Cincinnati; published
  as Manresa: The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius—For General Use.
  
  
  TAN Books, a division of Saint Benedict Press, LLC.
  
  
  Republished in 1999 by TAN Books, with the addition of prayers (pp. 559–568)
  referred to in the text. Retypeset and republished in 2010 by TAN Books.
  
  
  Library of Congress Catalog Card No.: 98-61687
  
  
  ISBN: 978-0-89555-153-5
  
  
  Cover illustration: copy of the portrait of St. Ignatius of Loyola by Sanchez
  Coello (original destroyed in Madrid in the early 1930s). Photo courtesy of
  Santuario de Loyola, Azpeiia (Guipuzcoa), Spain.
  
  
  Printed and bound in United States of America.
  
  
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