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.
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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.
Demarcation line of Alexander VI; Missions -- Philippines; Philippines -- Discovery and exploration; Philippines -- History -- Sources
6. The convent of Calamianes, or, as it is called, Taitai, where there
is a presidio of Spaniards, and where one thousand six hundred souls
are directed. That convent has another confraternity of our Lady,
the Virgin.
_Bislin or Bislig_
7. The convent of Bislin or Bislig governs two thousand families. There
died most happily father Fray Juan de San Augustin, a son of the
province of Castilla. He was a grand minister of the gospel, and knew
the Bisayan tongue very well. He lived apostolically, and gave a fine
example with his virtues, which made him very lovable to the Indians
themselves, as was seen in the rising of the coast of Caragha, from
which it was necessary to withdraw him and keep him from perils to
the life that he would have lost through the fury of the enemies. His
abstinence was remarkable, for, although the toil of his ministry
was so vast, as he went continually through rugged places, forests,
rivers, and seas, he ate nothing but herbs, and sometimes small fish,
when he was especially fatigued. He was very humble and poor, bearing
himself with the Indians as if he were the meanest of them. By these
and other virtues he gathered great fruit in this life, which will
doubtless have gained him eternal rest.
_Baldad, Dignes,and Iaquet_
8, 9, and 10. Our most reverend father, Fray Pedro de Santiago,
preacher of Felipe Fourth, examiner of writings for the supreme council
of the Inquisition, vicar-general of our congregation, chronicler of
the kingdom of Aragòn, bishop of Solsona, and afterward of Lerida,
referred many times to the convents of Baldad, Dignes, and Iaquet,
in a relation that he published on the going of our religious to the
Indias. However, father Fray Andres del Santo Espiritu, provincial of
Filipinas, in another manuscript relation, calls one of them Iguaquet,
which is thought to be that mentioned as Iaquet. In that convent there
are eight hundred Christian families. It was founded on a river in
the northern part of this coast of Caragha by father Fray Juan de San
Nicolàs, a native of the Algarbes in Portugal, who took the habit in
Manila. He was a grand minister and knew the language of the Caraghas
[59] perfectly. He preached with great spirit, and succeeded in making
many miraculous conversions, among both the heathen and the Christian
sinners, who left his sermons so contrite, that they anxiously went
to seek the salvation of their souls in the sacrament of penance.
11. Another convent is also mentioned as being in certain islets
not far from Iguaquet, in which another eight hundred families of
Christians were cared for.
_Laylaia_
12. The convent of Laylaia (which sounds the same as [the name of]
the river above), is forty leguas distant from Butuan. There was a
presidio of Spaniards there, which from the indications seems to be
that of Linao. It has in charge one thousand six hundred souls.
_Caviscail_
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