The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 11 of 55: 1599-1602; 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 Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century
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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 11 of 55: 1599-1602; 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 Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century
Demarcation line of Alexander VI; Missions -- Philippines; Philippines -- Discovery and exploration; Philippines -- History -- Sources
Father Miguel Gomez [38] was sent to a tribe at a considerable
distance. At first he gave all his attention to learning the names
of those who had not yet been washed in the holy waters of baptism;
and there were brought to him sixty, besides some others who are known
as Visaians. And to all these, after he had sufficiently demonstrated
the vanity of idols and the truth of the Christian belief, he imparted
baptism, with so great a degree of consolation to them all, although
they were old men, that they all marveled. But before dawn, behold
some others, men and women of very great age, who had hidden by the
gate of our house that they might be initiated by means of the same
sacrament. Accordingly sixty, along with six children, were initiated;
and in this number was included the chief of the place, a man already
more than sixty years old.
Residence of Bohol
This residence is subject to the preceding one, that of Zebu. The
harvest reaped in it your Paternity will learn from the letter of
Father Valerio Ledesma [39] herewith enclosed. He says: "In accordance
with the direction of your Reverence I visited the island of Bohol and
gave my first attention to collecting the people, who were scattered
everywhere, into one place. To many I suggested means of peace, and
proposed efficacious remedies; and at last I succeeded in getting a
thousand men, the greater part of whom had been trained in the use of
arms, to leave their mountains, from which it had been impossible to
draw them before, and to assemble at one spot. We also attempted to
attract a number of barbarian inhabitants of the mountains, who had
never looked upon any mortals before they saw our fathers, making use
of all of the offices of humanity and of the allurements suitable
to their nature, and we succeeded. We assigned them a settlement
near the river, where they have now built a church, to which they
flock on Sundays. We have baptized one hundred and twenty of their
children, or even more. The adults have not only laid aside all
of their fierceness, but pray for baptism with the greatest ardor,
singing chants, and night and day recite the Christian faith.
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