being sent with reenforcements to the Malucas, the father's luck turned against him with the order that was received, for the boats that were ready not to sail. Consequently, he was accommodated on the fleet of Nueva España, but with very few religious. However they proved to be many, because of the lack of religious in the ministries and convents of the Indias.... General History of the Discalced Religious of St. Augustine By Fray Luis de Jesus [42] Decade Fourth Chapter First _The Augustinian Reform is erected, by pontifical favor, into a congregatión, divided into provinces, and governed by a vicar-general._ [The first eleven sections of this chapter relate to affairs in Spain, and contain matters touching the order at large, as well as the affairs of various districts, and others pertaining to the lives of various religious of the order. The balance of the chapter deals with Philippine matters, as follows.] _Year 1621_ § XII _Foundation of the convent of Zibù in Filipinas_ During this year of twenty-one, when our discalced order was erected into a congregation in España, the number of our houses in the Filipinas Islands was increased by the efforts of the zeal of the religious who were attending therein to the service of God and the welfare of so many souls, who were in need of ministers to lighten them with the divine word upon the pathway of the Lord. Sovereign Providence, then, arranged that our discalced should have a convent in that island of Zibù. It has been a station for the entrance of the publication of the faith of Christ our Lord to many distant provinces of barbarous and blinded people.