Ignatius Loyola, who included it in his “Spiritual Exercises,” it is sometimes referred to as the “Aspirations of St. The sequence of sentences in Anima Christi have rich associations with concepts that relate to the Holy Eucharist (Body and Blood of Christ), Baptism (water) and the Passion of Jesus (Holy Wounds).Īs it was once mistakenly attributed to St. The Anima Christi is a medieval prayer to Jesus, originally in Latin.
