“Anima Christi”. By: Marco Frisini. Preparation For: Septuagesima; Sexagesmia; Quinquagesmia; Quadragesima; Lent.

“Anima Christi”.

By: Marco Frisini.

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“Anima Christi” (Latin for “Soul of Christ”) is a Catholic Prayer to Jesus of Mediæval origin.

For many years, the Prayer was popularly believed to have been composed by Saint Ignatius of Loyola, as he puts it at the beginning of his Spiritual Exercises and often refers to it.

However, the Prayer actually dates to the Early-14th-Century and was possibly written by Pope John XXII, but its authorship remains uncertain. 

It has been found in a number of Prayer Books printed during the youth of Ignatius and is in manuscripts which were written 100 years before his birth. 

The English hymnologist James Mearns found it in a manuscript of the British Museum which dates back to about 1370. In the library of Avignon, there is preserved a Prayer Book of Cardinal Pierre de Luxembourg (☩ 1387), which contains the Prayer in practically the same form as that in which it appears today. 

It has also been found inscribed on one of the gates of the Alcázar of Seville, which dates back to the time of Pedro the Cruel (1350 – 1369).[1]

The invocations in the Prayer have rich associations with Catholic concepts that relate to the Eucharist (Body and Blood of Christ), Baptism (Water) and the Passion of Jesus (Holy Wounds).