James Mearns, the English hymnologist, found it in a manuscript of the British Museum which dates back to about 1370. This is a mistake, as has been pointed out by many writers, since the prayer has been found in a number of prayer books printed during the youth of the saint and is in manuscripts which were written a hundred years before his birth (1491). Ignatius Loyola, as he puts it at the beginning of his “Spiritual Exercises” and often refers to it. The Anima Christi was and is still generally believed to have been composed by St. Of this we are not certain, as this Pope has been falsely accredited with similar pious compositions, and a mistake could easily be made of confounding the one who gave the indulgence with the real author. In regard to its authorship all we can say is that it was, perhaps, written by John XXII. ![]() All the manuscripts practically agree as to these two facts, so there can be no doubt of their exactness. ![]() This well-known prayer dates its origin from the first half of the fourteenth century and was enriched with indulgences by Pope John XXII in the year 1330.
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