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The Medieval Church · c. 1348–1374
The Life of Christ
Vita Christi
Ludolph of Saxony · c. 1295–1378
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What it is
An enormous meditative life of Christ, gathering patristic comment and asking the reader at every scene to be present in it, to look and to listen.
Why it lasted
The book Ignatius of Loyola read while convalescing, which set him on the path to the Spiritual Exercises.
Scripture it works from
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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