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
[22] Translated: "_He that shall lose (his life)_, He says, _for my
sake._ There is the whole cause. _He that shall lose_, not in any way
whatsoever, not for any reason that you like; but: _For my sake_. In
prophecy those other martyrs already said: _For thy sake we are killed
all the day long_ (Ps. xliii, 22). Not therefore is it the punishment,
that makes a martyr, but the cause." This is found in St. Augustine's
sermon _In natali martyrium_ ("On the festival of martyrs"), cap. ii,
sec. 2; it is Sermon 331, ed. Migne, Paris, 1841 and 1845--in older
codices, "Sermon 100 _de Diversis_."--_T. C. Middleton_, O.S.A.
[23] Translated: "If a robber should assault, or a wild beast attack,
or hunger or thirst or cold afflict, one fleeing in the desert and
mountains, or a storm or hurricane drown one making haste through the
seas in precipitate navigation, Christ beholds in him His soldier,
wherever he may be fighting; and He gives the reward to him who
dies persecuted for the name of His honor, which He promised that He
would give at the resurrection. Nor less is the glory of martyrdom,
in having perished not in public, nor in the midst of a multitude,
when the cause for which he dies is to lose his life for the sake
of Christ. For the witnessing of martyrdom, it is enough that He was
witness who approves and crowns the martyrs."
[24] Theophile Raynaud was born November 15, 1587, at Sospello, in
the county of Nice, and entered the Society of Jesus November 21,
1602. He taught grammar and the humanities at Avignon, philosophy for
six years and theology for ten at Lyons, where he was also prefect of
studies for two years. He lived for some years at Grenoble, Chambery,
and Rome, and passed the last thirteen years of his life at Lyons,
where he died October 31, 1633. He was a most voluminous writer, but
his style was poor. Some of his works have been printed, while others
exist only in manuscript. He had planned to print them all together,
but death hindered the project. The book referred to in the text is
_De Martyrio per pestem Ad martyrium improprium, et proprium vulgare
comparato, Disqvisitio Theologica, Theophili Raynavdi Societatis
Iesu Theologi_ .... (Lvgdvni, Sumpt. Iacobi Cardon, M.DCXXX.) See
Sommervogel's _Bibliotheque_.
[25] "In goodness and liberality."
[26] A portion of St. Mark x, 30. The Latin of the entire
passage is: _Qui non accipiat centies tantum, nunc in tempore hoc:
domos, et fratres, et sorores, et matres, et filios, et agros, cum
persecutionibus, et in saeculo futuro vitam aeternam_. The English of
the Douay version is: "Who shall not receive an hundred times as much,
now in this time; houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers,
and children, and lands, with persecutions, and in the world to come
life everlasting."
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