Year by Year with the Early Jesuits (1537–1556)

Because it runs to about 4,500 pages—and was until recently published only in Latin—it has long been inaccessible to most readers. This English–language edition serves as an introduction to the Chronicon. It is designed to serve both “Jesuits who are interested in their family history” and general scholars interested in the roots of the Society of Jesus, Fr. Donnelly writes in his introduction. De Polanco’s personal acquaintance with many of the first Jesuits informs this authoritative, and sometimes wry, account of life in the early Society.

Paperback, 480 pages.