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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[30] Andrés del Espíritu Santo was born at Valladolid in 1585, and
made his profession at Portillo in 1601. Entering the Philippine
mission, he began his labors with the natives in the province of
Zambales, where he was very successful. In 1609, and again in 1615,
he was chosen vicar-provincial. Afterward going to Spain for more
missionaries, he returned to the islands in 1622, and four years
later became provincial, as again in 1632. The rest of his life was
spent at Manila, where he died in 1658.
[31] A city between Vera Cruz and Mexico City, more commonly known as
Puebla; it was founded about 1530, and became the seat of the diocese
in 1550, and soon was a flourishing agricultural and manufacturing
center.
[32] _Instituto_: constitution, or rules of observance, adopted by
the order.
[33] "Now I shall die happy."
[34] Luís de Jesús states (_Historia_, p. 79) that this name is a
corruption of Manavilis.
[35] Cf. the accounts by Loarca (_Vol_. V of this series) and Plasencia
(_Vol_. VII).
[36] This tree (_Mangifera altísima_) resembles the mango, but its
fruit is much smaller. The tree grows to a greater height than the
mango. The fruit is eaten by the natives, being used with vinegar. See
Blanco's _Flora_.
[37] "Behold the cross of the Lord. Flee, ye adverse ones. The lion
of Judah is conqueror."
[38] Antonio de San Agustin was born in Manila, the son of Francisco
de las Misas, and made his profession in the Recollect convent there,
in December, 1614. He was a minister in various places, and had been
prior of several convents. In 1658, while returning from an official
visit to the Calamianes Islands, he was captured by Moros, who slew
him. At the time of his death he was sixty-six years old.
[39] The first father named above was afflicted by a grievous
plague of vermin [_chinches_--literally, "bedbugs"], seemingly
after a request that he might suffer his purgatory on earth. At the
time of his death, "raising his voice and saying, _In manus tuas,
Domine, commendo spiritum meum_, he expired, without making another
movement. Immediately the _chinches_ disappeared and not one could be
found, although one could gather than by handfuls before, as they say."
[40] The _Congregatio de Propaganda Fide_, one of the "sacred
congregations" of the Catholic Church, was founded in 1622, by Pope
Gregory XV, conferring upon it most ample powers for the propagation
of the faith, and especially for the superintendence of missions
in countries where heretics or infidels had to be evangelized. The
jurisdiction proper of the congregation extends to all territories
which are governed _more missionum_, or as missionary countries--not
by the bishops of the regular hierarchy, but by prefects and vicars
apostolic. It has, moreover, legislative and judicial power. See
Hoffmanns' _Catholic Directory_, 1896, p. 48.
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