1618 Luis PUENTE Meditations on Faith Mysteries 2 in 1

1618 Luis PUENTE Meditations on Faith Mysteries 2 in 1. Scarce EDN

Puente, Luis de la *1554-1624*

Meditationes de Fidei nostrae mysteriis ... Primae et Secundae Partis.

Brixiae : Franciscum Thebaldinum, 1618

SMALL 8vo. 15.2 x 8.3 cms

16 leav., 774 pp., 9 leaves.

With wdct title vignette (cat), fine initials and ornamental devices.

18th Century half cloth binding with manuscr. titling to lower edge, brown endpappers.

"... In VII. Partes Divisae, quae tribus viis, purgativae, illuminativae & unitivae respondent / Compendio Scriptae Per R. P. Nicolaum d'Arnaya, eiusdem Societatis ; Et a R. D. Remaclo du Vaulx S. Theol. Lic. Eccl. Fossensis Canonico in Latinum traductae."

2 vols in 1.

Early and scarce Latin edition.

Self contained first and second part of Puente's famous Meditations (Meditaciones de los mysterios de nuestra Santa Fe).

Venerable Luis de la Puente (born at Valladolid, 11 November1554; died there, 16 February1624) was a Spanish Jesuit theologian and ascetic writer. A few years after his death, the Sacred Congregation of Rites admitted the cause of his beatification and canonization.

His works are so replete with practical spirituality that they claim for him a place among the most eminent masters of asceticism. Ordaind priest in 1580, he became the spiritual director of the celebrated Marina de Escobar, in which office he continued till his death. In 1599 he devoted himself with great charity to the care of the plague-stricken in Villagarcia. Of remarkable innocence of life, he not only avoided all grievous sin, but bound himself by vow, some years before his death, to avoid as far as human weakness permitted even venial faults. Besides a mystical commentary in Latin on the Canticle of Canticles, he wrote in Spanish: "Life of Father Baltasar Alvarez"; "Life of Marina de Escobar"; "Spiritual Directory for Confession, Communion and the Sacrifice of the Mass"; "The Christian Life" (4 vols.), and "Meditations on the Mysteries of Our Holy Faith", by which he is best known to English readers.

Text in Latin.

Condition:
Binding a bit rubbed with some use traces. Inside firm with some occasional lightish marginal spotting & staining, a touch dusty.

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