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.
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.
Ignatii de Loyola.
Ratisbonae: Pustet, 1923.
The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius Loyola.
Sancti Leoni Magni tractatus.
The Latin text, an English translation, and mp3 audio files of Father Reginald Foster reading the sermons of Saint Leo the Great.