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ILP: Some Ignatian Resources

An English version of the parts of the Autobiography recounting Ignatius's time at Manresa and Montserrat can be downloaded here. If you want other formats and/or languages, it may be worth talking to Philip or looking in the Manresa library.

On Ignatius as Leader

The sources on Ignatius as leader are of three kinds: biographical, letters and instructions, and the Constitutions. The oral presentation concentrates on the Constitutions.

Biographical

a treatise by Pedro de Ribadeneira on Ignatius's manner of governing, in English and the original Spanish--this is probably best approached through the use made of it in a talk by Jorge Mario Bergoglio in the early 1980s (the fourth of the pieces in this collection--note that he, of all people, has written a piece called 'The Bad Superior').
Luis Gonçalves da Câmara's Memoriale--from which a short and important extract can be found here.

Letters and Instructions: The major translations of Ignatius's letters include most of these: :

three texts for Broët and Salmerón as papal legates to Ireland (September 1541)
to Jesuits at the Council of Trent (1546)
to the community at Coimbra (the letter on perfection) (May 7 1547)
to Jesuits leaving for Germany (September 24 1549)
two letters to Nadal, regarding a plan to deal with the Turks (August 6 1552)
to those sent on mission (October 8 1552)
to Francis Xavier, recalling him (June 28 1553)
to João Nunes Barreto SJ, patriarch of Ethiopia (1555)

The Constitutions

a scanned version of the historical edition by George Ganss can be found here
particularly relevant would be part IX on the Superior General, part VIII chapter 1, and parts IV, chapter 10 and 17.
on part VIII chapter 1 see an accessible and down-to-earth article by Franz Meures