ARNAYA, NICOLAS de. - Ascetical writer, b. at Segovia in 1558, Jesuit from 1571, missionary and several times superior in Mexico, d. at Mexico in 1623. He compiled a *Compendio de las meditaciones del p. Luis de la Puente* (Madrid 1611), which had many editions in various languages. More personal are his *Conferencias espirituales*, in dialogued form (3 vols., Seville 1617-1618).
BIBL.: J. Duhr, in DSP, I, cols. 890; Sommervogel, I, cols. 558-561; J. E. de Uriarte-M. Lecina, *Biblioteca de escritores de la Comp. de Jesús... de España*, I, Madrid 1925, pp. 307-313.