The Wound That Opened Heaven

What began in agony on a battlefield became, through months of fever, forced stillness, and divine restlessness, the interior journey that would eventually give the Church the Society of Jesus and every soul willing to pray it the incomparable gift of the Spiritual Exercises. The Wound That Opened Heaven is not a distant biography of a marble saint. It is a close, devotional companion to the raw, human, blood-and-bone story of how Íñigo became Ignatius, tracing him from the smoke of Pamplona to a sickbed in Loyola, from a moonlit road to Montserrat to the cave at Manresa where darkness and light fought openly for a man's soul. If you have ever made the Spiritual Exercises, longed to make them, or simply wondered how one wound could become such a fountain of grace, this book was written for you.