3/12/2024 0 Comments Anima christi songIn the library of Avignon there is preserved a prayer book of Cardinal Pierre de Luxembourg (died 1387), which contains the prayer in practically the same form as we have it today. The English hymnologist James Mearns found it in a manuscript of the British Museum which dates back to about 1370. It has been found in a number of prayer books printed during the youth of Ignatius and is in manuscripts which were written a hundred years before his birth. However, the prayer actually dates to the early fourteenth century and was possibly written by Pope John XXII, but its authorship remains uncertain. On this account the prayer is sometimes referred to as the Aspirations of St. It was by assuming that everything in the book was written by Ignatius that it came to be looked upon as his composition. In later editions, it was printed in full. In the first edition of the Spiritual Exercises Ignatius merely mentions it, evidently supposing that the reader would know it. For many years the prayer was popularly believed to have been composed by Saint Ignatius of Loyola, as he puts it at the beginning of his Spiritual Exercises and often refers to it.
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