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Spiritual Catechism of Christian Perfection

Jean-Joseph Surin

This book is in French.

Father Jean-Joseph Surin’s great treatise of spiritual direction (1657-63), in questions and answers: the spiritual man and the obstacles to perfection, virtues and holy practices, apostolic work, the duties of the various states of life, the reformation of man and of the passions, the ordinary actions of the spiritual life and some points on the soul’s perfection. The text of the 1801 edition (“newly revised and corrected”), in eight parts; the scanned text is imperfect, with gaps at the page margins.

Contents

Source: The eight parts of the volume (Table des chapitres of Tome II) as printed, with the chapter headings restored from the printed table where the OCR kept the heading; headings the OCR lost are not marked and their text runs on. Google boilerplate, running heads and signatures stripped, lines rejoined by hand rules. The scan loses words at the margins of many pages and the last pages are badly garbled; the text is not proofread. The 17th-century editions (1669, 1683) and the 1882 Œuvres spirituelles would be better witnesses (Google Books full view, not reachable from the sourcing machine).