Research guides: Ecclesiastical Latin: Spiritual and Theological Classics

Spiritual and Theological Classics

Many Latin spiritual and theological classics have a reasonably small vocabulary base and a simple sentence structure.

De imitatione Christi.
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Mechlinae: H. Dessain, 1921.
The Imitation of Christ, formerly attributed to Thomas à Kempis.
De imitatione Christi.
Clearwater, FL.: Editiones Familiae Sancti Hieronymi, 1998.
An audio-CD version of The Imitation of Christ.
Exercitia spiritualia.
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Ignatii de Loyola.
Ratisbonae: Pustet, 1923.
The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius Loyola.
Sancti Leoni Magni tractatus.
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The Latin text, an English translation, and mp3 audio files of Father Reginald Foster reading the sermons of Saint Leo the Great.