Ignatius, of Loyola, Saint, 1491-1556. Exercitia spiritualia (Personal Name)

Exercitia spiritualia, 1548: title page (Exercitia spiritualia, MDXLVIII) http://bivaldi.gva.es/es/consulta/registro.cmd?id=6786

Bibliothéque de la Compagnie de Jésus, 1890: column 61 (Exercitia spiritualia. S.l., MDXLVIII. Á la fin: Romæ apud Antonium Bladum, XI Septembres MDXLVIII) https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951d003813784?urlappend=%3Bseq=41

Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance, accessed January 31, 2019: (Ignatius Loyola, Spanish founder of the Jesuits injured in the French invasion of Pamplona in 1521; "during his protracted convalescence he read devotional works, and the following year, while living in a cave near the abbey of Montserrat (Catalonia), wrote the Exercitia spiritualia (Rome, 1548), which was to become a seminal work in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century religious thought. The purpose of the spiritual exercises is to suppress worldly desires and purify the mind in readiness for devotion. After focusing on the subject of the meditation, which may be represented visually in a painting or statue, the supplicant intensifies the spiritual state by recourse to the three powers of the soul (memory, understanding, and will); the exercise then culminates in a prayer. The Ignatian exercises are enacted in much of the devotional literature of the next century")

Wikipedia, viewed January 31, 2019: (The Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola (Latin original: Exercitia spiritualia), composed 1522-1524, are a set of Christian meditations, contemplations, and prayers written by Saint Ignatius of Loyola, a 16th-century Spanish priest, theologian, and founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). Divided into four thematic "weeks" of variable length, they are designed to be carried out over a period of 28 to 30 days) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritual_Exercises_of_Ignatius_of_Loyola