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Autobiography (The Pilgrim's Story)

St. Ignatius of Loyola

This book is in Portuguese.

The account of his life that St. Ignatius dictated to Fr. Luis Gonçalves da Câmara in 1553–1555, from the wound at Pamplona and his conversion to the founding of the Society in Rome, with the traditional numbering [1]–[101]. Paragraphs [1]–[78] are the Spanish as dictated; from [79] the original is Italian and this text is a Spanish rendering of it.

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Source: Paragraphs [1]-[78] are the Spanish text as Ignatius dictated it (Câmara's amanuensis); from [79], where the dictation passes into Italian, the text is a modern Spanish translation of the Italian. The Italian original (MHSI, Scripta de S. Ignatio I, 1904) is not yet transcribed.