I PUBLICATIONS OF DOCUMENTARY NATURE
1. Lists of documents found in archives of
the Order
Antonio Fortes, Las misiones del carmelo
Teresiano 1584-1799.
Documentos
del Archivo
General de Roma,
en Monumenta
Historica
Carmeli
Teresiani.
Subsidia 6
(Roma 1997).
It
offers the list and content of the documents
of the missionary section of the General
Archive of the Discalced Carmelites in Rome,
corresponding to the
XVII-XVIII.
Another volume for the XIX – XX centuries is
expected.
-
A similar publication is desirable
as regard some Archives, containing
documents of ancient Missions, such as the
one in
Broussey
( Aquitania ),
Gent
( Flandes ),
Madrid
( Castilla ),
Vitoria
(Navarra ),
A. Silveriano
(Burgos),…
2.
Collections of documents and of
documentary reference:
2.1 Ambrosio A S. Teresia,
Hierarchia
carmelitana [missionaria],
5 fasc., Rome
1933-1951;
Biobibliographia
missionaria OCD
(1584-1940), Rome 1940 [complemented by
Matías del N.J.,
Bibliografía
misional de
los
Carmelitas
Descalzos
españoles en el
Monte Carmelo
(Burgos 1961)110-145;
Nomenclator
missionariorum
OCD (1582-1942), Roma 1944;
Monumenta
missionaria
carmelitana
(1938-1950 ), 5 series: the last one : “Regesta”
(Rome 1938-1950);
Monasticon
Carmelitanum,
Rome 1950...
2.2 Biblioteca
Mística
Carmelitana (BMC)
– Burgos 1932…) – Works of
Gracián (3
vols.), and of other
authours.
2.3 Monumenta
Historica
Carmeli
Teresiani (MHCT):-
A very accurate edition of historical
documents (Rome, I.H.T.,
Teresianum,
1973…
---- - Documenta
primigenia
(1560-1600),
(4 vols.);
- Monumenta
Jerónimo Gracián
(3 vols.);
Próspero del Espíritu Santo (1
vol.).
---- Acta
Capitul.
Generalium Cong.
Sanctae
Eliae et
totius
Ordinis ,
1605-1961(4
vs).
---- Subsidia:
Acta
Definit.
Generalium
Cong.
Sanctae Elíae
(1605-1863)
(5 vols.: regesta).
Needed:
A critical edition of all – or of the
most important - missionary documents of the
Congregation, and of some chronicles – “Relationi”
– of the missionaries to Propaganda or to
the superiors responsible in Rome of our
missions.
---- Documentos del Carmelo Teresiano
reimplantado en España (siglo XIX)-
3 vols.
2.4 On
Juan
De Jesús María (Pedro
Ustarroz ):
His
Missionary
Writtings,
edited by
Giovanni Strina
( Bruxelles
1998);
Bio
Bibliografía en el siglo XX,
by I. Husillos Tamarit,
in ABCT 39 ( 2001)3-677.
II. HISTORY OF OUR MISSIONS:
1.
A comprehensive, documented and critical
history.
It does not exist: It is needed.
On the other hand, they are coming out some
excellent scholarly written books
on particular missions, and on particular
missionaries.
2 Books of vulgarization nature:
2.1 A book of
synthesis:
Élisée Alford,
O.C.D,
Les missions des
Carmes Déchaux
– 1575-1975 (Paris 1977). The best
historical manual for the moment; with some
defects; written before the post- Council
critical studies on the missions..
Severino de S. T., Santa Teresa de Jesús
por las Misiones (Vitoria 1959):
written
with
enthusiasm…
2.2 Biblioteca
Carmelitano-Teresiana
de misiones
(the first four in 1529-30; the rest from
1988). 12 vols. up to the present.
The first five books were written by Fr.
Florencio. Of
agreeable reading; Some of the last ones are
written with good historic method.
3. Books of especial interest for some of
our ancient missions:
3.1 Studies on the first mission of T.
Carmel: the Congo Mission (1582-87 ).
Needed:
an exhaustive research on the motive,
which moved the three missionaries to
leave the mission (or the country).
3.2
Congregation of San
Joseph:St.
Albert's Province (Mexico):
Dionisio V. Moreno,
Los carmelitas descalzos y la Conquista
Espiritual de México, 1585-1602 (México
1966).
On the presence of three
carmelite
friars in the “Vizcaíno
Expedition on the Coast of California,
1602-1603”, some articles appeared in
magazines during the Centenary year. The
missionary spirit animating the group has
been underlined by José Luis
Ferrero
o.c.d. in his
monograph, written in 2005 on one of the
three, Fr. Antonio, entitled “The
missionary Ideal of Fr. Antonio de la
Ascensión”.
Needed:
A critical edition of some valuable
manuscripts, such as the “Libro
de Capítulos y
Definitorios y
Fundaciones…”
and of “profesiones…(1586-1834)”,
and of some of the chronicles of the “Vizcaíno
Exodition”. It
is also needed to study more deeply
and critically the following question: who
were/or what was responsible for not going
to Philippines the religious who left Spain
and came to Mexico with that intention.
3.3
Congregation of St. Elijah:
3.3.1 History of the missions, by Fr.
juan de jesús María,
in Missionary
Writtings, pp. 41-159:
continuation by Fr.
Paolo
Di
Tutti I
Santi
(1650): Ib.
Ap.
III,pp.
325-351.
- Reseña histórica sobre las misiones de
los carmelitas descalzos en “San Juan de
la Cruz” 1(Segovia 1890-1891)
3.3.2
Persian mission and papal commissions:
Hubert Chick,
A chronicle of the Carmelites in Persia
and Papal the Mission of the
XVIIth and
XVIIIth
Centuries, 2vols.
( London 1939 );
Silvano Giordano, Aportación de
los carmelitas descalzos de Italia a las
misiones, in
MteCarm 110(Burgos 2002)221-262.
III.
TASK FOR THE FUTURE:
Monographs
– work on archives, libraries and magazines.
Then, a synthesis.
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