The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 24 of 55: 1630-34; 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 24 of 55: 1630-34; 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
"When he arrived at the house of the governor there came out to meet
him the servant who had sought to see him, who had been present at
the late dispute, and at one which the father had formerly had with
the governor, when they arrested him. Although now the same means
of controversy were attempted, finding that, nevertheless, the more
they argued the more convinced he was, the principal means which they
used was to explain to the father how much the governor desired to
grant him life and to favor him, as he could have seen every time he
discussed this matter. He was promised in behalf of the same governor
great riches and position; and they strongly insisted that not only
on account of what he owed to the friendship which the governor
showed him, but for what concerned his own welfare and interest, he
ought to abandon the faith of God, outwardly only, and to follow it
in his heart, as any man of good judgment would do--saying that he
would show himself to be such by using this expedient, for he would
not abandon the faith which he followed, and would attain riches and
repose. The answer was that even if the governor should give him all
the riches that he possessed and all that there are in the world,
and should make him lord of all, by no means would he turn his back
to God or abandon His most holy faith--no, not even outwardly.
"The governor, finding then that he could not win the father over
by arguments, advice, or promises, ordered him to be taken back to
the prison, determined to use other more rigorous measures, with
which he considered it certain that he would overcome him and the
other religious who were in prison. This was by ordering them to be
tortured in a spring of exceedingly hot water, at the mountain Unjen;
[93] for although some told him that this also would not win over
either Father Antonio or the others, it appeared impossible that
they should not yield under this most extreme torture--as experience
had shown him in the year 1629, when he ordered the Christians of
Nangasaqui to be tortured in this way. Accordingly, he ordered the
aforesaid five religious to be conveyed to that mountain, there to be
tortured with hot water until they should deny the faith, but in such
wise that they should not die. By the same order he sent likewise
in their company Beatriz de Acosta, the wife of Antonio de Silva,
and Maria her daughter; for they would not deny their faith, although
they had long been labored with--and this notwithstanding the fact
that Beatriz de Acosta was Japanese only on the side of her mother,
and the daughter much less so, as her father was a Portuguese, and her
mother a half-Portuguese; and they do not proceed in this persecution
[except] against Japanese and ministers of the gospel.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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