Monumenta Ordinis Servorum Sanctae Mariae

MONUMENTA ORDINIS SERVORUM SANCTAE MARIAE. - A publication whose purpose is to reproduce and disseminate the principal historical documents, preferably the oldest ones, concerning the Order of the Servants of Mary.

It was begun in Belgium (Brussels) in 1897 by Frs. Agostino M. Morini and Pellegrino M. Soulier of the same Order, who edited it until 1908. According to the editors' plan, at least one volume (over 200 pages in large quarto) was to appear each year; in fact, however, the volumes that have seen the light up to now number twenty, plus three supplements to vols. XI, XIII and XX. The last volume bears the date 1930: in the following years, owing to the intervening publication of the periodical Studi storici sull'Ordine dei Servi di Maria (from the year 1933, the Order's seventh centenary), and subsequently owing to the difficulties caused by the war and its consequences, the publication in fact remained suspended.

From 1908 onward, Frs. G. Vangelisti, L. Raffaelli and G. Zinkl joined Fr. Soulier in the editing; in 1926, upon the death of Fr. Soulier, the editorship passed to Fr. Raffaele M. Taucci.

Alessio M. Rossi