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Ignatius merely mentions it, evidently supposing that the reader would know it. In later editions, it was printed in full. It was by assuming that everything in the book was written by Ignatius that it came to be looked upon as his composition. On this account the prayer is sometimes referred to as
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have performed it. Liszt made two settings of it, both for male voices and organ, in 1874 . There is a contemporary Catholic composition by
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The invocations in the prayer have rich associations with Catholic concepts that relate to the
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Catholic tradition, during the 21st century, the Anima Christi prayer is recited in some
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However, the prayer actually dates to the early 14th century and was possibly written by
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In the mid-19th century the prayer was translated and published as the English hymn
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For many years the prayer was popularly believed to have been composed by Saint
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after having received Communion. Although not a part of the
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churches in the United States at the end of the mass.
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and often refers to it. In the first edition of the
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