It's well known that the mendicant orders (Augustinians, Franciscans, and Dominicans) viewed the conversion of indigenous peoples as a divine mandate, aligning religious objectives with imperial interests. Their work often justified and reinforced colonial authority under the guise of saving souls. Anyway, the mendicants played a crucial role in shaping the cultural and religious landscapes of the Americas and Asia during early modern globalization. They produced extensive documentation that still today provides valuable insights into the interplay between spiritual conquest, colonial powers, and identity formation. In this context, the institutional documentation produced by the mendicant orders represents an element of extraordinary interest in reconstructing the past of the territories where they operated. However, it has been little studied from the perspective of the formation of the identity of the American and Asian provinces of the orders themselves. Far from being conflict-free entities, these provinces experienced a series of intense identity conflicts throughout early modern globalization, starting with the tensions between friars originating from the Iberian Peninsula and "creole" friars. The establishment of archives, the drafting of chronicles, and the construction of memory - both in terms of missionary activity and institutional presence and expansion - must therefore be seen as two sides of the same coin. The construction of documentary memory and the writing of the many histories and chronicles of the provinces of the mendicant orders stood at the crossroads of spiritual needs, hagiography, the desire to bear witness to missionary activity, and the reconstruction of the past with a strongly identity-focused perspective. Last but not least It's important to remark that this legacy continues to influence even today the historical narratives and cultural identities of the regions the mendicant orders impacted.