My God, I love Thee, not because

My God, I love Thee, not because. Latin, attributed to St Francis Xavier* (?) (1506-1552), translated by Edward Caswall* (1814-1878). The Latin text, ‘O Deus ego amo te’, is found in the Coeleste Palmetum (Cologne, 1669) of a Jesuit priest, Wilhelmus Nakatenus. It was a translation of a Spanish sonnet, ‘No me mueve, mi Dios, para quererte’, which was printed in Epitome de la vida y muerte de San Ignacio de Loyola (Roermond, 1662). It is said that this was used daily by St Ignatius in his devotions, but not that it was written by him. However, it was attributed by Nakatenus to St Francis Xavier, and this was accepted by Caswall, who published his translation in Lyra Catholica (1849) under...