By the end of the sixteenth century, the Society of Jesus was redefining its ever-growing organization. Starting with the generals Mercurian and Acquaviva, the order attempted to leave behind the open spaces devoted to retired forms of prayer so as to put the full weight of the institution on its practical ministries. However, such an advance against contemplative prayer did not lack challenges. The present work aims to rescue a hardly studied critical prose in the midst of those changes: the case of the Spanish Jesuit Francisco de Ribera. This article suggests that Salamanca's professor used his words to defend contemplative prayer. For this purpose, he utilized a device of great scope in the Catholic universe during the Counter-Reformation: the hagiographic narrative. It is proposed here that the vita appears as a mechanism of dispute not only outside but also inside Roman Catholicism. In this sense, the hagiography was a platform of debate within the order. Far from being a purely repetitive text, Ribera's biography of the Castilian visionary and reformer Teresa of Ávila shows the exaltation of a form of prayer that he gladly projected to the group of all believers and especially to the Society of Jesus.

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圣徒传记作为早期现代欧洲内部天主教辩论的平台：弗朗西斯科·德·里贝拉 (Francisco de Ribera) 的圣母德莱萨·德耶苏斯 (1590) 和对耶稣会内部默观方式的辩护

到 16 世纪末，耶稣会正在重新定义其不断壮大的组织。从水星将军和阿夸维瓦将军开始，该命令试图留下专门用于退休形式的祈祷的开放空间，以便将该机构的全部重量放在其实际的事工上。然而，这种反对默观祈祷的进步并不缺乏挑战。目前的工作旨在拯救一个在这些变化中几乎没有研究过的批评散文：西班牙耶稣会士弗朗西斯科·德·里贝拉的案例。这篇文章表明，萨拉曼卡的教授用他的话来为默观祈祷辩护。为此，他在反宗教改革期间使用了一种在天主教世界中具有广泛意义的手段：圣徒叙事。这里提出，生命作为一种争议机制出现，不仅在罗马天主教之外，而且在罗马天主教内部。从这个意义上说，圣徒传记是教团内部辩论的平台。里贝拉关于卡斯蒂利亚有远见和改革者阿维拉的特蕾莎的传记远非纯粹重复的文本，而是展示了一种祈祷形式的崇高，他很高兴地将这种祈祷形式投射给所有信徒，特别是耶稣会。