For four hundred years The Spiritual Combat has been a handbook of the interior life, carried by saints and beginners alike. Lorenzo Scupoli, a priest of the Theatine order, teaches that holiness is won in a daily warfare against self-will and disordered desire. He puts four weapons into the soul's hand: distrust of self, confidence in God, the right use of prayer and the sacraments, and perseverance to the end. Saint Francis de Sales carried this little book in his pocket and read from it daily for years. This Sanctified Souls Press edition presents the complete work, unabridged, in the English translation published at London by Burns and Oates in 1905. Newly set in Crimson Pro and Cinzel, on cream paper, for reading and keeping.