Baker, David (Augustine) (1575-1641)

English monk and writer. He was the author of two famous mystical works, Sancta Sophia, which was published in 1657, and Confessions, published in 1922.

Baker was educated at Christ's Hospital and Oxford. After studying law, he was received into the Roman Catholic Church and joined the Benedictine order at Padua, Italy in 1605. He was appointed spiritual director to the English Benedictine nuns at Cambrai 1624-33. He later returned to England, where he died.