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first work Speculum monachorum, which he wrote Football Jerseys under the symbolic pseudonym of Dacryanus—"the crying one."5 After the re-unification of the community and the success of the reformist tendencies, Blosius continued to compose texts designed at first primarily for internal use at the monastery. Soon, however, his edifying writings were printed in Leuven, Antwerp, Cologne and Brussels and especially after 1549 the tempo of new editions of his Jerseys works aceeleratcd significantly.'' Apart from Latin, Blosius' literary production was also published very early in Flemish, French, Italian, and German, gradually reaching an ever wider audience.
Following the more formal Statuta monastica—a work that was linked to the reformation of the abbey—Blosius published a broad variety of works focusing on practical spiritual advice for the common believer, outlining central Christological themes,7 ottering guidance on prayer and self-perfection, presenting basic doctrines of theologia mystica and providing the reader with anthologies of texts from older Christian authors.'1
Kierkegaard may have been made familiar with basic NFL Jerseys information on Blosius through some of the encyclopaedic works that he owned, such as those of Louis Moreri or Christian Gottlieb Jocher. Although their accounts of Blosius are very brief and fragmentary, Jocher's presentation interestingly characterizes Blosius as an author of theologia mystica.18
The most important secondary medium through which Kierkegaard encountered Blosius was presumably the Scimmtliche Werke of the Viennese imperial preacher Abraham a Sancta Clara. Kierkegaard read Abraham's corpus most

in the years 1847-4819 and marked in his copy NFL Jerseys of Abraham's SammtHche Werke 63 passages.2" In the summer of 1847 he recorded in his journal 10 references and quotations from Abraham's work Grammatica Religiosa, whose first two volumes contain 35 textual units highlighted by Kierkegaard. Some of the highlighted texts Kierkegaard later used in his own religious production—in Works of Love and Christian Discourses.2I Two passages highlighted by Kierkegaard in Grammatica Religiosa stem from a longer excerpt from Blosius' Consolatio Pusillanimium quoted by Abraham.22
Abraham a Sancta Clara refers to Blosius in a number of instances throughout his oeuvre, but especially in Grammatica Religiosa—which exerted a very tangible influence on Kierkegaard—his presence is substantial.23 Abraham quotes explicitly
Soren Kierkegaard owned the very first edition of Blosius' Opera omnia edited by Blosius' confrere and disciple Jacques Froye (d. 1586) that was published in Latin two years after Blosius' death.34
As noted above. Kierkegaard's reading of Blosius was preceded by his reading of Abraham a Sancta Clara, through whom he encountered Blosius at the latest Football Jerseys in 1846.35 He marked in Abraham's Grammatica Religiosa two quotations from Blosius' Consolatio Pusillanimium, both of which stem from an excerpt that treats the importance of trust and peace of mind in the times of temptation.36 The original author of the text is, however, probably not Blosius himself, as the passage is found in a chapter of Consolatio Pusillanimium which Blosius composed as a set of excerpts primarily Jerseysfrom the Carthusian spiritual writer Johannes Justus of Landsberg.3"

Kierkegaard copied in his journal two short Football Jerseys Latin quotations from Blosius' Igniariolum Divini Amor is** and Institutio Spiritualis. The quotation from the former is a two-line verse about the passionate love of Christ from one of the six brief devotional texts that Blosius recommends for meditation (ruminatio) to a soul that attempts a closer adhesion to God.3Q This text, which Blosius presents without mentioning the source, is for the most part an extract from the popular Pscudo- Bernardian hymn known as Jubilus Rhythmicus de Nomine Jesu.*°
The quotation from Institutio Spiritualis, which Kierkegaard excerpted in December 1847, does not originate from Blosius himself either. Blosius attributes it
to "a ccrtain friend of God" who offers "the truest rule NFL Jerseys for all perfection."41 The core of the rule is the famous maxim from Meister Eckhart's Die rede der underscheidunge which sums up the essence of self-detachment.42
In 1848 Kierkegaard again copied to his journal a short Latin quotation from Blosius. this time from Consolatio PusiUanimium.A3 It is taken from a passage which Blosius put together from references to biblical stories illustrating intensive emotions combined with confidence in Christ.
Consolatio Pusillanimium must have left quite a strong impression on Kierkegaard, as he came back to it in January 1849 when contrasting Blosius to the clergy Jerseysof his time: "It would be a frightful satire on Christendom if one published a work like Blosius' Consolatium Pusillanimium, in order to show what a pastor as spiritual adviser [Sjelesorger] found necessary to say in former days...Nowadays there are no longer pastors as spiritual advisers