The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 25 of 55: 1635-36; 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 25 of 55: 1635-36; 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
The city seeing that the disturbance was increasing, assembled at
that time in the cabildo houses, and sent commissaries to consult
with the archbishop on the part of the city, and to protest against
the disturbances and mischief. The commissaries were the castellan,
Don Fernando de Ayala, and General Don Joan Claudio, and I think that
there were two others. Bearing before them the maces of the city,
they talked with the archbishop, who was clad in his pontifical robes,
and held the most holy sacrament in his hands. But they got nothing
out of the archbishop; and taking, by way of testimony, the protest
that had been made to him, they retired.
Now at that time, namely, at the hour of ten at night, the interdict
having been rung at the cathedral, and all the orders, without any
exception, having followed it, and ringing the interdict (as they
were obliged to do, in order to follow the metropolitan church),
the uproar caused the governor some anxiety. He went out with an
escort of soldiers, and gave orders that no one be allowed to go to
the house of the archbishop, in order that there might be no greater
concourse of the people. The soldiers began to remove the religious
and seculars who surrounded the archbishop, by violence, for they
refused to go willingly. On going to take away a secular who had hold
of the lunette of the monstrance, the most holy sacrament fell to the
ground, causing a great scandal. The father guardian of St. Francis
began to call out, and beat himself and fell to the ground. With
that the infantry, scandalized, began to be more gentle. There was
one soldier who drew his sword, and turned it on himself, crying:
"It is finished." Although he did not kill himself, he was grievously
wounded. Thus wounded, they took him away for treatment, and at the
same time arrested him as a rioter. Some praised that soldier's act,
but I think that the devil would have laid hold of him as of Judas,
had he died.
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