Collections

Collections are groups of documents or resources related to a subject or to a single author.
A collection of documents usually contains unpublished material owned by APUG. Resources instead can collect other kind of material, such us images, maps and bibliographies.

Pasquale D'Elia

This collection contains the bibliography of all the Pasquale D'Elia's publications. D'Elia (1890-1963) was a jesuit, sinologist and professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University and at Sapienza University of Rome. More information about his life and academic career is available here (Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani).

Pierre Favre

With the Pierre Favre collection our aim is to produce a digital edition of the manuscript FC 1042, a recently and previously unknown copy of Favre's Memoriale. To do this, a digital reproduction of the manuscript has been made and uploaded to GATE: it is available at this link. A full transcription of the manuscript is now undergoing and when it will be ready, 'our' text will be collated with the canonical one - published in 1914 in the Monumenta Historica Societatis Iesu - in order to highlight all the variants. During this work a critical comment will also be added to the transcription.
This project is also intended as a chance to create a permanent Pierre Favre 'workshop', to deeper study his works and his time. For this reason, we have also set up a Pierre Favre bibliography, where all the publications about this Jesuit will be recorded: the bibliography will become the starting point for any future research about Favre and his Memoriale.

Balthasar Loyola Mandes

The Gregorian Centre for Interreligious Studies in cooperation with the Historical Archives of the Pontifical Gregorian University started digitizing the unpublished writings of Baldassarre Loyola Mandes S.J. (1631-1667). Son of the king of Fez (Marocco), Muley Mohammed el-Attaz a Muslim prince converted to Christianity, after he was capture by the Knights of Malta, while he was travelling to Mecca for pilgrimage. He took the name of Baldassarre Loyola Mandes to honor both the day of his baptism (July 31, 1656, feast of Saint Ignatius of Loyola) and the knight who made him prisoner and who was his godfather (Balthasar Mandols). A few years later, the 11th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus, gathered in Rome, authorized his admission to the novitiate at Saint Andrew at the Quirinal (1661). Desiring to leave on a mission to the empire of the Great Moghul, he died in Madrid at the beginning of his journey. His life, well known in the first Society, was staged by Pedro Calderón de la Barca and it was played in all the Jesuit colleges. Baldassarre was the only former Muslim admitted to the Society of Jesus until the abolition in 1946 of the decree of the 5th General Congregation (1594), which forbade the admission of net-converts.

Possession et Délivrance

The aim of this collection is to study a group of 12 manuscripts preserved by APUG, which contains the text of an exorcism happened in Paris between 1876 and 1880. The exorcism was conducted by the jesuit Maximilien de Haza Radlitz (1831-1909) and involved the young girl Désirée Léjeune (1846-1940). This documentation is a peculiar case study to observe the medical system within the modern society, during a time in which it starts to emancipate itself from the religious morality.

Angelo Secchi

Angelo Secchi (1818-1878) was a jesuit astronomer and scientist, one of the fathers of the modern Astrophysics. APUG preserves a large amount of his works, both handwritten and printed - with a lot of manuscript addition - and his extensive correspondence with the most important scientists of his time. With about 8,000 letters and more than 1,500 people involved, this correspondence is a treasure for the History of Science studies.