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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 21 of 55: 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.

History

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 21 of 55: 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

It happened in this place that one Sunday, while father Fray Francisco
de Santa Monica was in the church teaching the rudiments of the
Catholic faith to the least intelligent Indians, they came to tell
him that there was a certain woman, at a long legua's distance from
that place, dying of childbirth, who was entreating for baptism very
earnestly. The said father left his exercise, and, seizing a staff,
started to run so fast that, as he himself testified, it seemed as if
he were flying through the air. He was not far wrong, for in less than
one-half hour he reached the place or hut of the poor woman who was
expiring, all swollen and black with the pain and anguish that she was
suffering. He baptized her (and also instructed her as was necessary),
and she immediately gave birth to an infant, which, although alive,
was much deformed because of the danger of the mother. After it had
been washed likewise from the original sin in which all we children
of Adam are born, they both died, to the joy and wonder of that
minister at seeing the depth of the divine decrees in regard to the
predestination of those souls.

[Chapters iii, iv, and v treat of the European affairs of the order.]




Chapter VI

_All of the charges against the Reform are annulled by a brief, and
the fifth provincial chapter is held, with the prorogation which
they claimed. Two convents are established and a mission arranged
for the Philippinas_.

_The year 1616_


[By a papal decree of May twenty-one, new life is given to the
Recollect order, and their future assured. On the return of Father
Gregorio de Santa Catalina, the chapter which had been delayed until
that time was held. In this chapter, _discretos_ (or persons elected as
assistants in the council of the order) and visitors were abolished,
the latter having been found more expensive than useful. The title of
chief preacher was not to be given to anyone, as it tended to destroy
the democratic principles of the order. A section on the founding of
the college of Caudiel in Spain follows, and then the last section
of this chapter, which is also the last of this volume _in re_
the Philippines.]


_Foundation of the convent of Cabite_

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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History

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 21 of 55: 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

It happened in this place that one Sunday, while father Fray Francisco
de Santa Monica was in the church teaching the rudiments of the
Catholic faith to the least intelligent Indians, they came to tell
him that there was a certain woman, at a long legua's distance from
that place, dying of childbirth, who was entreating for baptism very
earnestly. The said father left his exercise, and, seizing a staff,
started to run so fast that, as he himself testified, it seemed as if
he were flying through the air. He was not far wrong, for in less than
one-half hour he reached the place or hut of the poor woman who was
expiring, all swollen and black with the pain and anguish that she was
suffering. He baptized her (and also instructed her as was necessary),
and she immediately gave birth to an infant, which, although alive,
was much deformed because of the danger of the mother. After it had
been washed likewise from the original sin in which all we children
of Adam are born, they both died, to the joy and wonder of that
minister at seeing the depth of the divine decrees in regard to the
predestination of those souls.

[Chapters iii, iv, and v treat of the European affairs of the order.]




Chapter VI

_All of the charges against the Reform are annulled by a brief, and
the fifth provincial chapter is held, with the prorogation which
they claimed. Two convents are established and a mission arranged
for the Philippinas_.

_The year 1616_


[By a papal decree of May twenty-one, new life is given to the
Recollect order, and their future assured. On the return of Father
Gregorio de Santa Catalina, the chapter which had been delayed until
that time was held. In this chapter, _discretos_ (or persons elected as
assistants in the council of the order) and visitors were abolished,
the latter having been found more expensive than useful. The title of
chief preacher was not to be given to anyone, as it tended to destroy
the democratic principles of the order. A section on the founding of
the college of Caudiel in Spain follows, and then the last section
of this chapter, which is also the last of this volume _in re_
the Philippines.]


_Foundation of the convent of Cabite_

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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