Anima Christi
The "Anima Christi" (Latin for ‘Soul of Christ’) is a traditional Christian prayer to Jesus used in the Roman Catholic and Evangelical-Lutheran traditions. It is of medieval origin and in this Christian prayer, the "supplicant contemplates the suffering body of Christ on the cross and pleads to be concealed within his wounds." == History == 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.