History of Micronesia: A Collection of Source Documents: Vol. 5 Focus on the Mariana Mission, 1670-73

Levesque, Rodrigue. History of Micronesia: A Collection of Source Documents: Vol. 5 Focus on the Mariana Mission, 1670-73. 5. Gatineau, Québec: Lévesque Publications. ISBN 978-0-920201-05-3.

Abstract: Vol. 5 (HOM.05) contains 55 chapters totaling about 139 documents covering all the mission activities during this period. Belgian Jesuits became involved at this time; the correspondence of Fathers Bouwens and Coomans, in Latin, was discovered in Belgium by the editor in 1990; many efforts were spent in transcribing and translating these 55 Latin reports, which are published here for the first time. All documents are cross-referenced and appear in their proper chronological sequence. The contents of HOM were compiled, translated, edited and annotated by Rodrigue Levesque. Rod located and made novel translations of thousands of documents between 1992 and 2002. These were organized in forty massive volumes, with only the first twenty being printed in physical, hardbound form. In 2022, the US nonprofit Habele obtained the copyrights to the full History of Micronesia series with the aim of offering free and navigable access to the public.