Founding Documents of the Society

Name: Founding Documents of the Society
Author: St. Ignatius of Loyola

St. Ignatius of Loyola

This book is in Portuguese.

The texts at the birth of the Society of Jesus: the Five Chapters (1539), the Deliberation of the First Fathers (1539), the Form of the Society and the Oblation (1541), and the two Formulas of the Institute (1540 and 1550). Spanish text, with the chapter:paragraph numbering of the edition.

Source: The Latin originals of the Five Chapters and the Formulas are rendered into Spanish here. The Deliberation of the First Fathers is the translation of the Latin; the Form of the Society (1541) is Ignatius's Spanish minute. The Deliberation on poverty and the Rules (Regulae) in MHSI are not included.