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[https://archive.org/details/bookcalledinlati00erasuoft/bookcalledinlati00erasuoft/ A book called in Latin Enchiridion militis Christiani, and in English The manual of the Christian knight : Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive] | [https://archive.org/details/bookcalledinlati00erasuoft/bookcalledinlati00erasuoft/ A book called in Latin Enchiridion militis Christiani, and in English The manual of the Christian knight : Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive] | ||
=== Erasmus' influence upon | === Erasmus' influence upon Loyola === | ||
Erasmus' works were translated into many languages, including Spanish, which gave him, according to scholar Terence O'Reilly, "enormously popularity in Spain during the 1520s not, primarily, as a satirist, nor as a scholar, but as the author of ''Enchiridion militis christiani."''<ref>[https://www.jstor.org/stable/23961674 ERASMUS, IGNATIUS LOYOLA, AND ORTHODOXY], Terence O'Reilly, The Journal of Theological Studies, NEW SERIES, Vol. 30, No. 1 (APRIL 1979), pp. 115-127 (13 pages) Published By: Oxford University Press; </ref> | Erasmus' works were translated into many languages, including Spanish, which gave him, according to scholar Terence O'Reilly, "enormously popularity in Spain during the 1520s not, primarily, as a satirist, nor as a scholar, but as the author of ''Enchiridion militis christiani."''<ref>[https://www.jstor.org/stable/23961674 ERASMUS, IGNATIUS LOYOLA, AND ORTHODOXY], Terence O'Reilly, The Journal of Theological Studies, NEW SERIES, Vol. 30, No. 1 (APRIL 1979), pp. 115-127 (13 pages) Published By: Oxford University Press; </ref> | ||
* [https://www.jstor.org/stable/23961674 ERASMUS, IGNATIUS LOYOLA, AND ORTHODOXY on JSTOR] | * [https://www.jstor.org/stable/23961674 ERASMUS, IGNATIUS LOYOLA, AND ORTHODOXY on JSTOR] | ||
** for a review of O'Reilly's essay, see [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370752018_Terence_O'Reilly_The_Spiritual_Exercises_of_Saint_Ignatius_of_Loyola_Contexts_Sources_Reception/link/64602c754353ba3b3b6321c3/download?_tp=eyJjb250ZXh0Ijp7ImZpcnN0UGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uIiwicGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uIn19 Terence O'Reilly, The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius Loyola] | ** for a review of O'Reilly's essay, see [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370752018_Terence_O'Reilly_The_Spiritual_Exercises_of_Saint_Ignatius_of_Loyola_Contexts_Sources_Reception/link/64602c754353ba3b3b6321c3/download?_tp=eyJjb250ZXh0Ijp7ImZpcnN0UGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uIiwicGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uIn19 Terence O'Reilly, The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius Loyola] | ||
* [https://www.britannica.com/topic/Handbook-of-a-Christian-Knight Handbook of a Christian Knight | work by Erasmus | Britannica] | * [https://www.britannica.com/topic/Handbook-of-a-Christian-Knight Handbook of a Christian Knight | work by Erasmus | Britannica] | ||
"Handbook of a Christian Knight" would have fit like a glove upon the knight-turned-spiritual warrior, Loyola. Written for a wayward soldier, St. Ignatius, while not wayward was a former soldier looking for a fight -- and honor. Erasmus showed him the path. | |||
Ironically, it would seem that both men helped one another. Loyola responded to Erasmus' call to holiness, while Loyola pushed, albeit separately and in vastly different ways, for Church reform. Both were questioned and distrusted -- and both earned the deep respect of the Popes they served. | |||
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