For many years the prayer was popularly believed to have been composed by Saint Ignatius of Loyola, as he puts it at the beginning of his Spiritual Exercises and often refers to it.
[1] The invocations in the prayer have rich associations with Catholic concepts that relate to the Eucharist (Body and Blood of Christ), Baptism (water) and the Passion of Jesus (Holy Wounds).
In the mid-19th century the prayer was translated and published as the English hymn Soul of my Saviour, sanctify my breast by Edward Caswall.
The 2004 Enchiridion Indulgentiarum grants the partial indulgence to the faithful of Christ who prays the Anima Christi after having received Communion.
The hymn 'Soul of my Saviour' is an English translation of this prayer by J. Hegarty, and music of jesuit priest William J. Maher (Bristol, 1823).