The history of the Jesuits is a topic of great interest for many fields of historical research. The centuries old exploits of Jesuits all over the world, as well as their frequent involvement in the social and political lives of nations, and the contributions of not few of them for developments in the sciences and the arts, are documented in innumerable letters, reports, official records and files, manuscripts and publications. Since the beginning of the Society, the regular written reporting was considered essential for the government of the missions of the Jesuits soon sent to all the corners of the planet. Each province and the General Curia in Rome maintain archives committed to preserving documents and making them available to researchers for consultation.
Through the initiative and coordination of ARSI (Roman Archives of the Society of Jesus) the archivists of the provinces of the JCEP began to meet in 2020, with the aim of promoting collaboration and networking between the Society’s archives in Europe. The first common project has been to prepare a list of some materials in the various archives for the period 1939-1958, following the accessibility to the documents of the pontificate of PIUS XII opened by the Vatican Archives.
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