The Autobiography of St. Ignatius | Société des Bollandistes

The Autobiography of St. Ignatius is considered by the Société des Bollandistes the most profitable record of the incomparable Founder of the Society of Jesus, the Jesuits, otherwise called Ignatius of Loyola. The editors of the Stimmen Aus Maria Laach, the German survey, just as those of the English magazine, The Month, reveal to us that it, more than some other work, gives a knowledge into the otherworldly existence of St. Ignatius. Hardly any works in ascetical writing, with the exception of the compositions of St. Teresa and St. Augustine, bestow such an information of the spirit.
To see completely the Spiritual Exercises, we should know something of the man who kept in touch with them. In this life of St. Ignatius, told in his very own words, we get a private information of the creator of the Exercises. We recognize the Saint's characteristic mien, which was the establishment of his otherworldly character. We learn of his change, his preliminaries, the snags in his direction, the valor with which he achieved his central goal.