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
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[43] In the unfortunate event which Father Medina mentions with
as much minuteness as candor, two important points must not be
overlooked by the judicious reader, which were the cause of this
unfortunate deed. One was the extreme harshness of the provincial in
his government, which must have been very excessive.... The imposition
of new commands must have been very heavy for the religious, since
even laymen intervened with the provincial, either for him to moderate
unnecessary harshness or to renounce the provincialate. The second
fact which also enters strongly into this case, is human passion
exasperated even to obscuring the intelligence, and personified in
Father Juan de Ocadiz, ... a man peevish and melancholy.... Hard beyond
measure must he have thought the measures taken against him. He saw
in the distance his perpetual dishonor, yet did not have the virtue
sufficient to resign himself; and, instigated by the spirit of evil,
perpetrated the crime which he expiated with his own life.--_Coco_.
[44] Literally, a sack containing one thousand pesos in silver.
[45] There were eleven Augustinians martyred, and they received
beatification from Pius X in 1867.--_Coco_.
[46] Equivalent to the English proverb, "Misfortunes never come
singly."
[47] Fray Antonio Ocampo was of the province of Castilla, and was a
religious of great activity. He was missionary to Bulacan in 1618,
to Tondo and Hagonoy in 1626, and definitor in 1620. He was sent
to Spain as procurator in 1632, but died at Acapulco on the way
thither. See Perez's _Catalogo_, p. 91.
[48] Fray Juan Ennao took his vows in the Toledo convent, and became
an excellent preacher. He was stationed at San Pablo de los Montes
in 1609; at Bulacan in 1611 and 1613; at Bay in 1613 and 1617; and
at Taal in 1614. He was provincial in 1615, and prior of Guadalupe
the same year, definitor in 1620, visitor and provincial in 1629,
returning for the third time after his provincialate to the village of
Bulacan (1635), where he died in 1636. See Perez's _Catalogo_, p. 77.
[49] Fray Lucas de la Pena was very fluent in the Bisayan language,
and labored in the missions of the Bisayan group from 1600 to 1630,
probably dying soon after the last named year. See Perez's _Catalogo_,
pp. 184, 185.
[50] Spanish, _del tropel de los caballos_--literally, "from the
trampling of the horses."
[51] "He said that those were true monks who, stifling their own wills,
wished or refused nothing, but desired only to obey the commands of
the abbot."
[52] Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews, x, 30.--_Coco_.
[53] Psalms civ, 15.--_Coco_.
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