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Read Ebook: The Philippine Islands 1493-1898 - Volume 41 of 55 1691-1700 Explorations by early navigators descriptions of the islands and their peoples their history and records of the Catholic missions as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts showing the by Bourne Edward Gaylord Commentator Blair Emma Helen Editor Robertson James Alexander Editor
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Relation of the insurrection of the Sangleys or Chinese and how our religious aided in bringing about peace and victory.
Our province of Philipinas extends its apostolic preaching to the districts called Contracosta . FatherFray Agustin de San Ildephonso, a learned and holy religious, dies in Tob?so.
The Year 1662
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The missions of the Contracosta, whither the preaching has spread, are received into our province of Philipinas, and four convents are founded.
Treating of the hardships endured by our religious in Philipinas, because of various persecutions that occurred in our fields of Christendom.
The year 1668
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Abridged relation of the persecutions of our holy faith in Philipinas, from the year 1640 to the year under consideration, 1668, and which are not mentioned in the preceding volumes.
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Of the hardships of our religious during these persecutions. The venerable father, Fray Antonio de San Agustin, dies at the hands of the Moros, in glorious martyrdom.
Our religious propagate the Catholic faith in Zamb?les, a province of Philipinas. Two religious die in Espa?a, with great marks of holiness.
The year 1670
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Information is given of the preaching of Ours in Zamb?les; and that many Indians came newly to the Church.
DECADE NINE
The Catholic faith makes new progress in Philipinas through the preaching of our religious. Death of some religious in Espa?a of great reputation.
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A great multitude of heathen Tagabal?yes who lived in the mountains near the district of Bislig, is converted in the island of Mindan?o by the preaching of our tireless laborers.
The Catholic faith is advanced by the preaching of Ours in various places in the Philipinas. The death of two religious in Talavera de la Reyna with great reputation.
The year 1677
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The evangelical trumpet resounds in various territories of Philipinas, and especially in the ridges of Linao, and in the mountains of Cagay?n, in the island of Mindan?o, by the means of our missionaries; and many heathens are converted to the Christian religion.
Our province of Philipinas takes charge of the spiritual administration of the island of Mind?ro where several convents are founded. Several religious venerated as saints, end their days in Espa?a.
The year 1679
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Description of the island of Mind?ro, and considerations in regard to its spiritual conquest, which was partly obtained before our discalced order assumed its administration.
... 785. Mind?ro is located in the center of the islands called Philipinas. It is surrounded by all those islands, and is encircled by them in a close band as the parts of the human body do the heart. It has a triangular shape whose three ends are three capes or promontories, one of which is called Burrunc?n and looks to the south, another looks to the north and is called Dum?li, while the third which looks to the west is called Calav?te. In regard to its extent, Mindoro comes to be the seventh in size among all the islands of that great archipelago. It is about one hundred leguas in circumference. Its climate is very hot, although the continual rains somewhat temper its unendurable heat. In its rains it exceeds all the other nearby islands. However this relief bears the counterpoise of making the island but little favorable to health, because of the bad consequences of the heat accompanied by the humidity. But for all that it is a very fertile land, although unequally so because of its rough mountain ranges, and the thick forests. There are many trees of the yonote, and of the buri, from which sago is made, which is used for bread in some places. There are also wax, honey, the fruits of the earth, flesh, abundance of fish, and rice where the people do not neglect through laziness to plant it. That island was formerly called Mainit, but the Spaniards called it Mind?ro from a village called Min?lo which is located between the port of Galeras and the bay of Il?g.
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Being obliged to abandon the ministries of Zamb?les by force, our province of Philipinas assumes possession of the ministries of Mind?ro, and obtains rare fruit with its preaching.
Information of the convents which were founded in that island, and the miracles with which God confirmed the Catholic religion which Ours were preaching.
The province of Philipinas again receives the ministries of Calami?nes, which it had previously abandoned. Abundance of fruit is gathered there. Some religious die in Espa?a.
The year 1681
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Our religious begin again to preach the faith in the islands of Calami?nes; and the great fruit which they gather in the conversion of many heathen.
DECADE TEN
Our province of Philipinas attempts a mission to Great China. The life of the venerable brother Fray Martin de San Francisco.
The year 1682
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Relation of the anxiety which our province of Philipinas has always had to extend its apostolic preaching to China; and the great effort made in 1682 for that purpose.
A fine mission leaves Espa?a for Philipinas; and the venerable father Fray Christoval de San Joseph leaves this for the eternal life.
The year 1683
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Of the missions of our religious who reached Philipinas during the years of these three decades, and in especial of the mission which made its voyage this year 1683 to the not small luster of the Catholic religion.
... 908. The third volume has already related that a mission left Espa?a in the year 1660 in charge of father Fray Eugenio de los Santos. He brought in that mission, however, only eighteen choir religious and two lay brothers whose names I have been unable to ascertain, as the instruments with which I would have to do so have not come to me from Espa?a. They all reached Mexico in the above-mentioned year and since because of various accidents that happened during the voyage, in the islands and in the port of Cavite no ships came from Philipinas to Nueva Espa?a, either that year or the two following, the mission had to stay in the said city all that time incurring the expenses and fatal consequences that one can understand. In the year 1662 the viceroy of Mexico despatched a boat to the islands to get a report of their condition, for there was fear that they had been invaded by enemies. One of those missionaries ventured in that boat, and arriving at Manila it caused not a little rejoicing to the inhabitants there. The next year ships from Philipinas were seen in the port of Acapulco, and as a consequence fourteen religious took passage in them and arrived at Manila in August 1663, and not in 1684 as was wrongly reported in volume three. The five others remained in Nueva Espa?a, but they afterwards reached their destination and all served in those fields of Christendom where they were of great use.
Brother Choristers
Lay Brothers
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Father Fray Juan de la Madre de Dios founds a village of Indians, converted by dint of his zeal. He is elected definitor and retires from the commerce of men to adorn himself with the perfection of his virtues.
... 984. In a site called Cacagu?yanan which means "the place of many bamboos," six leguas or so from Bolin?o there were for years back a not small number of Indians, who had fled from the surrounding villages, and who are there called Zimarr?nes. They having abandoned in its entirety the faith which they had received at baptism, and accompanied by many heathen, not only rendered vain the attempts of mildness and of force which had several times been practiced to reduce them to a Christian and civilized life, but either by declared war, or by means of skilful cunning, did not cease to cause constant depredations in the Catholic villages which were subject to Spanish dominion. So true is the statement contained in various parts of this history, that our ministers of Philipinas, although they dwell in mission fields already formed, go forth to living war against infidelity, and although the Christianity of Zamb?les was the first one converted by our discalced order, even there our religious have no lack of meritorious occupation. From the first time that our venerable father was in Bolin?o, he worked with his accustomed zeal in order to place those people in the pathway of their eternal salvation. He had obtained from them that the Christians should be obedient to the law, and that the heathen should leave the opaque shades of paganism, so that it was conceded to him to found a new settlement in the island of P?ro with them, with a general pardon and the accustomed privileges. Moved by so good hopes the father went to chapter, and since he had so much influence with the governor of the islands to whom the giving of such licenses pertains, he procured one for the founding of the village which he was attempting, with all the privileges that those Zimarr?nes and idolaters could desire. But since the religious to whom it was charged, did not succeed in finding the means prescribed by prudence to unite spirits dissimilar in other regards, not only was the project not obtained, but their good-wills having been irritated, the desired attainment came to appear impossible.
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