The Autobiography of St. Ignatius: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Autobiography of St. Ignatius, credited to St. Ignatius Loyola, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of The Autobiography of St. Ignatius, by Ignatius Loyola. Read by Phil Chenevert This account of the life of St. Ignatius, dictated by himself to Father Gonzalez, is a most valuable record of the great Founder of the Society of Jesus. It, more than any other work, gives an insight into the spiritual life of St. Ignatius. Few works in ascetical literature, except the writings of St. Teresa and St. Augustine, impart such a knowledge of the soul.The saint in his narrative always refers to himself in the third person, and this mode of speech has here been retained. Many persons who have neither the time, nor, perhaps, the inclination, to read larger works, will listen, we trust, with pleasure and profit to this autobiography. Ignatius, as he lay wounded in his brother's house, read the lives of the saints to while away the time. Touched by grace, he cried, "What St. Francis and St. Dominic have done, that, by God's grace, I will do." May this little book, in like manner, inspire its readers with the desire of imitating St. Ignatius. This autobiography is a valuable key for the understanding of his Spiritual Exercises. It was kept in the archives for about 150 years (Summary from the preface)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Autobiography of St. Ignatius
• Author credits: St. Ignatius Loyola
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 10
• Listed recording duration: 2:13:55

Catalogue topics

• Ignatius Loyola
• biography
• autobiography
• religious
• catholic
• saint

Track guide

1. 0 - Preface of the Writer — 7:39
2. 1 - Chapter I : His Military Life; He is Wounded; His Cure;Spiritual Reading;the Apparition; The Gift of Chastity: His Longing for the Journey to Jerusalem — 9:53
3. 2 - Chapter II: Ignatius Leaves His Native Land; What he did at Montserrat and Manresa — 16:17
4. 3 - Chapter II: Ignatius Leaves His Native Land; What he did at Montserrat and Manresa — 17:51
5. 4 - Chapter IV: His Journey to Rome, Venice, Jerusalem, and the Holy Land — 10:44
6. 5 - Chapter V: He is apprehended as a Spy—He is despised as a Fool—His Studies at Barcelona and Alcala — 13:48
7. 6 - Chapter VI: The Prisons at Alcala and Salamanca — 15:44
8. 7 - Chapter VII: His Studies in Paris, and Other Incidents of his Life — 16:48
9. 8 - Chapter VIII: His Journey into Spain and Italy—The Famous Apparition and his Life in the Same Place — 14:03
10. 9 - Appendix: St. Ignatius and his Work for Education — 11:10

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