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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.

History

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

as all their ministries are in remote regions very distant from this
city, and among the most warlike people in all the provinces of these
islands, as they have been but lately reduced. [We have told you] of
the risk of their lives on account of this, because it has happened
at times that those who seemed to be pacified have rebelled; while at
other times the religious have fallen into the hands of those who were
not pacified, when preaching to them the holy gospel. There have been
many others also who have suffered martyrdom in the kingdom of Japon,
thus enriching the church of God with such noble actions, as well as
the crown of your Majesty. Above all, they have no income except the
alms given them by the faithful. There is no fleet in which they do
not sail for the consolation of the infantry, etc. This city petitions
your Majesty to be pleased to concede permission to the said order,
so that religious may pass from those kingdoms to these islands to
the number that your Majesty may decree, in consideration of the fact
that the need for them, in ministries so distant as theirs, is very
great. In those ministries, through the little nourishment of the
food which they use for the sustenance of human life, for they live
as those who are truly poor, and with great abstinence, which they
observe, without reserving any time because of discomforts, whether of
sun or shower, going through dense forests and inaccessible mountains
in order to reduce the many millions of souls of those districts to
our holy Catholic faith, not one of whom has any light, etc."

Don Joan Niño de Tavora, governor and captain-general of the
above-named islands, and president of the royal Chancillería of Manila,
says in another letter to the same king:

"The Recollect Augustinian fathers who reside in these islands,
inasmuch as they arrived last, have taken the districts most distant
from this city. They are extending their labors into the district of
Caràgha, and Calamiànes, with success among those Indians, etc. During
the last four years, more than four thousand persons have been baptized
by that order alone. I petition your Majesty to be pleased to order
that their procurators be despatched with the greatest number of
religious possible, etc."

Lastly, Sabiniano Manrique de Lara, who exercised the aforesaid office,
concludes in another letter, in which he affirms the proposition:

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History

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

as all their ministries are in remote regions very distant from this
city, and among the most warlike people in all the provinces of these
islands, as they have been but lately reduced. [We have told you] of
the risk of their lives on account of this, because it has happened
at times that those who seemed to be pacified have rebelled; while at
other times the religious have fallen into the hands of those who were
not pacified, when preaching to them the holy gospel. There have been
many others also who have suffered martyrdom in the kingdom of Japon,
thus enriching the church of God with such noble actions, as well as
the crown of your Majesty. Above all, they have no income except the
alms given them by the faithful. There is no fleet in which they do
not sail for the consolation of the infantry, etc. This city petitions
your Majesty to be pleased to concede permission to the said order,
so that religious may pass from those kingdoms to these islands to
the number that your Majesty may decree, in consideration of the fact
that the need for them, in ministries so distant as theirs, is very
great. In those ministries, through the little nourishment of the
food which they use for the sustenance of human life, for they live
as those who are truly poor, and with great abstinence, which they
observe, without reserving any time because of discomforts, whether of
sun or shower, going through dense forests and inaccessible mountains
in order to reduce the many millions of souls of those districts to
our holy Catholic faith, not one of whom has any light, etc."

Don Joan Niño de Tavora, governor and captain-general of the
above-named islands, and president of the royal Chancillería of Manila,
says in another letter to the same king:

"The Recollect Augustinian fathers who reside in these islands,
inasmuch as they arrived last, have taken the districts most distant
from this city. They are extending their labors into the district of
Caràgha, and Calamiànes, with success among those Indians, etc. During
the last four years, more than four thousand persons have been baptized
by that order alone. I petition your Majesty to be pleased to order
that their procurators be despatched with the greatest number of
religious possible, etc."

Lastly, Sabiniano Manrique de Lara, who exercised the aforesaid office,
concludes in another letter, in which he affirms the proposition:

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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