EVANFE Data Management Plan at CORA eINa
Acta capitulorum provincialium Provinciae Sanctissimi Rosarii Philippinarum.
The complete digitization of the three volumes of Acta capitulorum provincialium Provinciae Sanctissimi Rosarii Philippinarum, covering the period 1588–1878, is available at this link thanks to our collaboration with the Historical Institute of the Province of Hispania of the Order of Preachers and the Provincial Archive of the Dominicans of the Province of Our Lady of the Rosary.
In progress
EVANFE Bio-bibliographical Dictionary. Iberian Asia, women and the Order of Preachers (XVIIth-XIXth).
The EVANFE Bio-bibliographical Dictionary compiles biographical and bibliographical records, based on archival and bibliographical sources, of all women —religious sisters, beatas, tertiaries, and laywomen— associated with the Province of the Rosary of the Order of Preachers between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries. As the first database of its kind, it constitutes a central component of the project. At the same time, it reflects the project’s broader scholarly interest in recovering a subaltern memory that frequently eludes the documentary record: namely, the female perspective on the processes of evangelisation in Ibero-Asia. By bringing together dispersed traces of women’s lives and activities, the database seeks not only to document their presence, but also to illuminate forms of agency, experience, and religious mediation that have often remained marginal or obscured in conventional historiography. By April 2026, the Dictionary had assembled records relating to 320 tertiaries and beatas from the Philippines, China, Tonkin, and Japan, chiefly spanning the period from 1633 to 1874. At present, the database is accessible only for internal use by the project team.
MoPRO Database. Missionaries of the Province of the Holy Rosary of the Order of Preachers (1587-1940).
The MoPRO database brings together biographical information, drawn from archival and bibliographical sources, on the missionaries of the Province of the Rosary of the Order of Preachers between 1587 and 1940. Conceived as a research tool for the historical study of missionary networks, trajectories, and institutional mobility, it provides a structured basis for examining the human fabric of the Province across more than three centuries. By April 2026, data relating to the period 1587–1940 had been compiled, amounting to 2,626 records. Access to MoPRO is currently restricted to members of the project’s research team.
Correo Sino-Annamita (1866-1916). Complete digitalization and index database.
El Correo sino-annamita (CSA) was one of the principal missionary periodicals of the Dominican Province of the Holy Rosary. First published in Manila in 1866, and issued annually until 1916—albeit with interruptions in 1896, 1898–1902, 1904, 1909 and 1915—it brought together correspondence, reports, and other materials relating to the Dominican missions in China, Tonkin/Annam, Formosa, Japan, and the Philippines. The Miguel de Benavides Library (Manila) describes it as the best source for the study of the Dominican missions from the mid-nineteenth century to the second decade of the twentieth, while scholarship has emphasised the breadth of its contents, which extend well beyond strictly ecclesiastical matters to include colonial politics, ethnographic observation, provincial social life, and the everyday experience of mission.
For EVANFE, the journal is of exceptional value because it combines historical and contemporary chronicles, statistical materials, and compilations of friars’ correspondence that bring us close to the everyday realities of missionary life, especially on the Asian mainland. We are currently working on an complete repertory covering the issues for 1866–1897/ 1903–1916. This corpus is complemented by later missionary periodicals published by the Province of the Rosary, including Misiones dominicanas (1917–1950), Ultramar (1951–1959), The Vineyard of the East (1920–1924), Campo misional (1958–1970), Huellas dominicanas (1970–1997), Ecos misioneros (1953–1970), Ecos de Japón (1970–1974), Información del Japón (1981–1982), and the series Cuadernos IV Centenario (1987–1988). The systematic indexing of these publications is of particularly high value for addressing key dimensions of our research.
The periodical’s long run, wide geographical coverage, and strongly documentary character make it an indispensable source for reconstructing missionary networks, institutional priorities, and everyday religious practice across Ibero-Asia, particularly because of the information it contains, transcribes, and analyses for the period covered by our research.
The scholarly value of a systematic repertory of CSA is especially high, since the collection is markedly dispersed—no complete series has so far been found in any library or archive—and the permanent loss of individual issues remains a real possibility.