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
13. That of Caviscail, in the Calamianes Islands, was abandoned because
of the murder committed on one of our religious, an able minister of
that village, by the Indians.
_Calagdan_
14. Father Fray Felipe de la Madre de Dios, provincial of Castilla,
and chronicler, mentions another--in the _Noticias Historiales_,
that he left in manuscript--at Calagdan. He assigns to it seven
hundred families that were converted to the faith.
_Binalgavan_
15. That of Binalgavan, in the island of Negros, with one thousand
five hundred families. That convent was left in the hands of the
fathers of the Society of Jesus, for reasons that existed for such
action. We cannot avoid mentioning some matters that happened there
when it was in charge of Ours.
A certain Indian chief had a son two years old, who was very sick. He
made the usual sacrifices to the devil for his health. As he did not
get what he was after, he begged father Fray Jacinto de San Fulgencio
for a little water passed through the chalice. The father gave it to
the sick child, and the latter was instantly cured. With that occasion,
it was the will of the divine mercy that the child, his parents,
and their household should be baptized and leave their darkness.
On another occasion they brought an Indian from a mountain with a
leg already rotting; and as he was being treated in the house of the
alcalde-mayor, at an unseasonable hour of the night he called loudly
for baptism. The father went to him, and, upon seeing him, the sick man
said: "Baptize me, Father, since God has brought me into the power of
the Christians for that reason." The religious minister baptized him
immediately, and scarcely had he finished administering the sacrament
to him when the Indian, invoking the most sweet name of Jesus, expired.
Finally a converted Indian woman, having been convicted of a grave
sin, in order to deny it cursed, saying: "May a crocodile eat me
before I reach my house, if what I said was untrue." God punished
her immediately, for while near her native place, called Passi, in
the island of Panai, a crocodile attacked her, and seizing her in its
mouth, dragged her into the river, and swallowed her. At that time,
father Fray Juan de San Joseph was prior of that convent.
_Tagho_
16. The convent of Tagho, so called from a river that bathes it,
has in charge the care of nine hundred families of Christians.
_Dinai_
17. In Calamianes, the convent of Dinai, with seven hundred families,
was removed to Linacapan in order to avoid the continual raids of
the pirates.
_Damaràn_
18. The convent of Damaràn had charge of four hundred baptized persons.
Father Fray Jacinto de San Fulgencio, commissary and procurator of that
province of San Nicolàs of Filipinas, while at this court of Madrid
gave a relation of other houses, in addition to those enumerated,
which are as follows:
_Layavan_
19. The convent of Layavan, with seven hundred families in its charge.
_Camigui_
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