The Practice of Perfection and Christian Virtues
The classic of Golden Age ascetical spirituality by the Jesuit novice master Alonso Rodríguez (Valladolid, 1538 – Seville, 1616; not the lay brother St. Alphonsus Rodriguez): three parts of eight treatises each, on spiritual progress, prayer, the presence of God, conformity with the divine will, mortification, humility, temptations, the Passion and Communion, and on the religious state, the vows and obedience. Seville, 1609. Spanish in a modernised digital edition (without the Latin authorities); in English, Joseph Rickaby's translation (1929), chapter for chapter.
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Source: The editor drops the Latin authorities, puts the author's untranslated citations in square brackets and modernises archaic forms. Bracketed Latin-free text kept as is; three of the editor's footnotes were left out. · OCR; chapters follow the Spanish one for one (377 chapters).