Don Quixote: Saintly Knight

By |2022-01-16T09:35:38-06:00January 15th, 2022|Categories: Books, Heroism, Imagination, Literature, Sainthood, Timeless Essays|

By viewing Cervantes’ “Don Quixote” as a type of saintly hagiography, and Quixote’s actions and motives as following the example of St. Ignatius of Loyola, Don Quixote turns into San Quixote, a knight who fights not on the plains of Spain but on a spiritual plane, by means of his illuminating imagination. Gallivanting through the [...]