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Pregar i meditar a la Catalunya del Cinc-cents: Ignasi de Loiola i la devotio moderna montserratina

2018; Issue: 2019 Linguagem: Inglês

2385-4391

Diego Sola,

Historical Studies on Spain

This paper analyzes, through the literary sources, the spiritual environment that Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, found upon arriving in Montserrat in 1522, a period still marked by the abbot of Garcia Jimenez de Cisneros (1493 to 1510). In the Benedictine monastery he came into contact with the montserratian devotional authors, members of a spiritual school with mental prayer as a methodology, clearly inspired by the devotio moderna born in the Netherlands, of which Cisneros was a follower. In the second part of the text, a rereading of the Spiritual Exercises is proposed as a manual of personal improvement with influences of the titles that were part of the devotional repertoire of the monks of Montserrat. A vision that, in turn, gives us a portrait of how one prayed and meditated in one of the main religious centers of 16th century Catalonia.