Certain Selected Spiritual Epistles

Name: Certain Selected Spiritual Epistles
Author: St. John of Ávila

St. John of Ávila

Fifty-seven letters of spiritual direction by St. John of Ávila, translated into English (Rouen, 1631), to preachers, priests, noblemen, ladies, maidens and religious. Each letter carries the number it has in the Spanish Epistolario espiritual of this corpus; letters that book lacks are marked with their number in Sala Balust's critical edition (BAC 1952) or as unidentified. The translator's preface is not included; his marginal scripture references are footnotes.

Source: All 57 letters, with the editor's one-line summary of each in italics. Illegible characters of the keying appear as ●. The correspondence with the Spanish letter numbers was made by comparing the summaries of the two editions, not word by word.