Luis de Granada (1504-1588) and Luis de Leon (1527-1601) were contemporaries, younger men than Juan de Ávila, and to some extent his followers. _The Guide for Sinners_ of the first, and the _Perfecta Casada_ of the second, have remained more or less popular books of devotion. At least they are reprinted among the Spaniards. _The Guide for Sinners_ was translated and read all over Europe. Granada’s _Book of Prayer and Meditation_ on “the principal mysteries of our faith” was hardly less famous. He had both the qualities and the defects of the style of his master. [SN: _Luis de Leon._] Luis de Leon was probably the greatest of the mystics in intrinsic force of intellect and in learning, besides being master of a far more manly style than any of them. He was also a man of independent intrepid character, and it may be that the fear with which the Inquisition regarded him was largely inspired by his strictures on the ignorance of the clergy and their flocks. Inquiry and knowledge were dreaded at a time when the Protestants were using them as instruments against the Church. The _Perfecta Casada_ was written for a lady, Doña Maria Varela Osorio. These writers, it will be seen, worked much for women. It was the age of the directors as distinguished from the old confessors. Pious people, and more especially women, who wished to lead a religious life, and had been taught that it was necessary not only to do but to believe what was right, were anxious for the constant guidance of a teacher who must be both orthodox and learned. Santa Teresa insisted greatly on this. The treatise is a long comment on the passage of Scripture which will suggest itself to everybody as fit for the purpose--the last chapter of Proverbs, beginning at the tenth verse. But the allegorical meaning is more insisted on than the plain sense of the words, and the _Perfecta Casada_ is a treatise on doctrine. Luis de Leon wrote much else, including an exposition of the _Names of Christ_ and of _The Book of Job_. [SN: _Santa Teresa._]