ARNAYA, NICOLÁS de. – Ascetic writer, b. in Segovia in 1558, a Jesuit from 1571, missionary and several times superior in Mexico, d. in Mexico in 1623. He compiled a Compendio de las meditaciones del p. Luis de la Puente (Madrid 1611), which went through many editions in various languages. More personal are his Conferencias espirituales, in dialogue form (3 vols., Seville 1617–1618).
BIBL.: J. Duhr, in DSp, I, col. 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. 307–13.