The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 20 of 55: 1621-1624; 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 20 of 55: 1621-1624; 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
Besides the said benefices of Zebu, Villa de Arebalo, and the island
of Caraga, that bishopric has twelve secular benefices which minister
to fifteen thousand four hundred souls. The Order of St. Augustine
minister to forty-eight thousand souls of the Indian natives in
the fifteen convents with their visitas that they maintain in that
bishopric. The Society of Jesus minister to fifty-four thousand souls
in their residences. They give the name of residence to the college
or chief place to which the fathers of that district, who have other
houses and churches of their own where they live, are subject.
Thus the souls of the Indian natives ministered to in the bishopric of
Zebu total one hundred and nineteen thousand six hundred and fifty,
including the few Malucans, Ambuenos, and those of other nations,
as above stated.
_Missions of the bishopric of Cagayan, and the number of souls cared
for therein_.
The bishopric of Cagayan, whose capital is the city of Nueva Segovia,
has twenty Spanish inhabitants and fifty soldiers in the said city.
There is not a single secular benefice in all that bishopric, and it
is administered by the orders of St. Augustine and St. Dominic.
The Order of St. Augustine has fifteen convents, in which fifty-eight
thousand souls of Indian natives are cared for.
The souls of the natives ministered to in the said bishopric of
Cagayan amount to one hundred and twenty-eight thousand.
_Benefices and missions of the bishopric of Camarines, and the number
of souls instructed therein_.
In the bishopric of Camarines, whose seat is in the city of Caceres,
there are at present only twelve or fifteen Spanish inhabitants,
the alcalde-mayor, some few soldiers whom he takes with him, and the
collectors of tribute for that province, all of whom do not number
fifty men. They are ministered to in the cathedral by one secular
priest, who has in charge two small villages near by, where live two
hundred souls of the natives.
That bishopric has five secular benefices, where eight thousand four
hundred souls of natives are ministered to.
The Order of St. Francis owns twenty-four convents with guardianías
and presidencies, and ministers to forty-five thousand souls.
The Society of Jesus has one residence, where they minister to three
thousand two hundred souls. Hence the souls of the natives cared
for in the said bishopric of Camarines amount to fifty-six thousand
eight hundred.
_The number of souls of Indian natives ministered to in the Filipinas
Islands_. According to the evidence of this relation, the souls
of Indian natives ministered to in this archbishopric and in its
suffragans, the three above-mentioned bishoprics, amount to five
hundred and six thousand. [45]
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