title: Christ Within Me: Prayers and Meditations from the Anglo-Saxon Tradition
author: Benedicta Ward SLG
description: <DIV>Benedicta Ward is Reader in the History of Christian Spirituality in the University of Oxford. Her most recent book is <i>Anselm of Canterbury: His Life and Legacy</i> (SPCK 2009). She is a member of the Anglican monastic community of the Sisters of the Love of God.</DIV>
zlib_text: #### From the [Christian Classics Ethereal Library](http://www.ccel.org)
  
  
  ## The Life of Blessed Henry Suso by Himself.
  
  
  ### By
  
  
  ## Heinrich Seuse (or Henry Suso)
  
  
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  ## THE LIFE
  
  
  #### OF
  
  
  # BLESSED HENRY SUSO
  
  
  ## BY HIMSELF
  
  
  ## Translated from the original German
  
  
  #### BY
  
  
  ## THOMAS FRANCIS KNOX,
  
  
  #### PRIEST OF THE ORATORY
  
  
  
  
  
  ### LONDON:
  
  
  ## BURNS, LAMBERT, AND OATES,
  
  
  #### 17 Portman Street and 63 Paternoster Row.
  
  
  ### 1865.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  #### LONDON:  
  
  
  ROBSON AND SON, GREAT NORTHERN PRINTING WORKS,  
  
  
  PANCRAS ROAD, N.W.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  ## TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE.
  
  
  THE Blessed Henry Suso was born at Ueberlingen,
  
  
  near Constance, on St. Benedict’s-day, A.D. 1300\.
  
  
  He was of ancient and noble descent both on his
  
  
  father’s and mother’s side. Out of devotion to his
  
  
  mothe