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.
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6. He also had a garden or country-house, called Calumpang, because
of its location. He made them a present of it, and of a portion of
the lands surrounding it, on condition that the said religious found
a convent on that site, where some religious could live retired and
free from disturbance. The then vice-provincial, Fray Rodrigo de
San Miguel, took possession, after obtaining the necessary licenses
from the government and from the archbishop. With these was formed a
convent of the same house, and a small church was erected under the
invocation of St. Sebastian, being dedicated to that glorious martyr,
a being to whom especial devotion was paid by its founders, who aided
its cost with their wealth. The archbishop, then Don Fray Miguel Garcia
Serrano, adjudged [to it] the spiritual administration of the tenants
of the lands, to the number of about thirty houses. The minister of
Sampoloc had a suit pending about those tenants, but as soon as they
were adjudged to that new church, they escaped from his demands;
and free possession remained to them, which was confirmed by the
royal patronage. A beautiful image of our Lady of Carmel was placed
in that church a few years afterward, which was brought from Mexico
by a mission of those religious. Her devotion extended her worship,
and her favors made her more famous. The dean of that holy church, Don
Juan Velez, given up by the doctors, and already without hope, begged
the religious to carry the holy image of Carmel to his house. At the
entrance of that Lady, and the fervent prayer of the dean, he suddenly
became well and completely cured. As a thank-offering for so singular
a favor, he returned the image to her church, and made her a very
solemn feast. He founded with the ordinary authority a confraternity,
under the title of Carmel, which attained so many members within
a short time that the number was more than two thousand, of both
sexes. The dean continued the feast every year, but scapularies were
not distributed because they had no authority for it, and because they
had no members of the Carmelite order. [63] Therefore those religious
had recourse to a competent prelate of the Carmelites, who could
concede the permission with apostolic privilege--the very reverend
father-provincial of Andalucia, Maestro Fray Diego de el Castillo,
granting authority to the prior of the convent of San Sebastian in
Philipinas in order that he, in his person alone, could and might
bless the scapularies of his holy order, and distribute them to the
faithful who might request them. From the receipt of that despatch,
and by means of such a distribution, the confraternity became full
to overflowing. The feast could not be held on its appropriate day in
July, which is wont to fall in the height of the rainy season. Having
recourse to the apostolic see, Pope Clement Eleventh erected the
confraternity anew, and set its feast for the twenty-first of January,
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