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
_Regarding the number of curacies and missions, and of the persons
who administer them._ In regard to the relation and report that your
Majesty orders me to make of the curacies and missions of this diocese
(both of Spaniards and of Indians); of the persons who serve them, and
the manner of their presentation, whether of seculars or of friars,
and of what orders; the age of each, and his length of service in
those curacies and missions; and whether he serves with the good-will,
humility, unworldliness, and good example to which he is bound;
as well as of other things contained in the section that treats of
this. I refer to what I have said in my letter, without going into
particulars regarding the names and ages of the ministers; for that
appears to be less necessary, since the benefices at present held by
seculars in these islands are so limited in stipends and obventions
that nearly all of them are compelled to beg for these, in order not to
desert their benefices. In the missions in charge of the religious, the
same persons do not live continuously, for their provincials remove and
change them from one to another, according as they deem most advisable.
_That this relation shall be continued on all occasions._ I shall
have the care that your Majesty orders, in sending duplicates of
this relation until I am advised that your Majesty has received it,
and I shall add to it whatever occurs later. When I learn that your
Majesty has received it, I shall observe the order given me, to refer
to what I shall have written in what may not be new matter, increased
and corrected by the past relations as far as may be advisable. I
shall continue to do that without awaiting any new order for it from
your Majesty, whose very Catholic person may our Lord preserve for
the increase of new kingdoms and the prosperity of those which you
possess, as is necessary to Christendom, and as we your Majesty's
humble chaplains desire. Manila, August, 1621.
This, Sire, is the relation of that I wrote to your Majesty in the past
year of 1621. I found nothing to correct except the section treating
of the number of the convents in charge of the Order of St. Dominic,
which is amended in its place in the margin. Manila, July last, 1622.
_Fray Miguel Garcia Serrano_,
archbishop of Manila.
Royal Decrees Regarding the Religious
Ordering the Dominicans Not To Meddle in Government Affairs
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