MYSTICAL PRAYER ACCORDING TO ST. JANE DE CHANTAL M i; Su/6 ystical prayer ACCORDING TO :: ST. JANE DE CHANTAL BY AUGUSTE SAUDREAU TRANSLATED BY A. E.'H. SWINSTEAD New York, Cincinnati, Chicago BENZIGER BROTHERS PRINTERS TO THE HOLY APOSTOLIC SEE NIHIL OBSTAT: EDVARDUS MAHONY, S.T.D. CENSOR DEPVTATVS IMPRIMATVR: EDM. CAN. SVRMONT VIC. GEN. WESTMONASTERII, DIE i4° JANVARII, 1929 First published February, 1929 es Printed in Great Britain at the Burleigh Press, Lewin’s Mead, Bristol TRANSLATOR’S NOTE This little book was originally published in La Vie Spirituelle. Permission for trans¬ lation has been kindly given by M. le Chanoine Auguste Saudreau, Principal Chaplain of the Mother House of the Good Shepherd and Honorary Canon of Angers, and by R. Pere Bernadot, O.P., Editor of the Review in question. Other works by M. Saudreau have been translated into English. These are: The Degrees of the Spiritual Life, z vols. The Mystical State, its nature, its phases. The Life of Union with God. The Ideal of the Fervent Soul. I have to thank the Very Revd. Dom John Chapman, O.S.B., who arranged for this translation, for very kindly reading the manuscript, and for much else. A. E. H. SWINSTEAD. November, 1928. vii