The Lutheran archbishop of Riga, Jānis Vanags, first discovered the Spiritual Exercises in a samizdat photocopy, purchased illegally in a forest near Riga during Soviet times. Even now, the name of Ignatius Loyola is suspect among some in his Church. His only answer is to recount his own experience, which leads him to reflect: 'I was amazed at how Lutheran the Spiritual Exercises are'.