Letters
The Digital Indipetae Database will host thousands of indipetae, or Jesuits’ petitions for missionary assignments abroad, written throughout the history of the Society of Jesus.
More information about the history and uniqueness of this source is available at: https://indipetae.bc.edu/learn-more.
This database provides different ways to freely explore its growing collection of letters.
You may browse all the letters, or you may browse by collection (either the Old or New Society).
The advanced search allows you to explore the letters through a number of facets. Assistance on how to search is available. Please contact the project’s staff with other questions.
An initiative of the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, the Digital Indipetae Database provides free access to a growing collection of these indipetae petitions and, excepting the scanned images, is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial No-Derivatives 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
The database also hosts scans of the original letters that are housed at the Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu and other archives. The scans are published here with permission from the respective archive. Any requests regarding those images, including all requests for permission to republish, should be directed to those holding institutions.