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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 27 of 55: 1636-37; 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 27 of 55: 1636-37; 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

Don Francisco de Balderrama, although so young a lad, went to Mindanao
with Don Sebastian; and, while near his Lordship, it happened that a
musket-ball struck the governor's page (who was at his side) in the
flap of his helmet. The ball went in his cheek and came out through
his mouth, and struck Don Francisco in the breast, knocking him down
immediately. However, he received no hurt; for on examining him, it
was found that the ball had passed through his clothing and shirt,
and had struck in some altar-linens which he carried next his breast
through devotion, without its having left any mark on them. That is
esteemed as a miracle. This is what has occurred to me to write your
Reverence. I shall be careful to do the same, God helping, every year,
providing that your Reverence writes me of occurrences there. May
our Lord preserve your Reverence, and give you a prosperous voyage,
etc. Cavite, July 23, 1637. [118]


Juan Lopez [119]





CORCUERA'S TRIUMPHANT ENTRY INTO MANILA

_An account of the reception given in Manila to Señor Hurtado de
Corcuera, when he returned triumphant from Mindanao._ [120]


Yesterday, a little before eleven a.m., we left Cavite in a row-boat
with Don Sebastian, and reached Santiago at one p.m. A short time
before our arrival, some Japanese Christians came out to meet him,
in two champans--the sides of which were entirely surrounded with
shield-shaped forms of white linen cloth adorned with green crosses;
they bore also many white flags, with fresh flowers; and they welcomed
his arrival with blasts from the trumpet that they carried. The
governor received them very cordially; and they, falling behind,
accompanied him. We landed [121] at the house of Amaro Diaz, where
the military headquarters were located. From that place Father Juan
de Barrios and myself went to our house, where we found the father
provincial Father Juan de Bueras, Father Roa, [122] and father Marcelo
[_i.e._, Mastrilli], who had all come to the reception, (but before
I give an account of it, it is to be known that a quarter of an hour
after the arrival of Don Sebastian, there came the champan of Don
Graviel Niño, the only one who was missing.)

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History

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 27 of 55: 1636-37; 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

Don Francisco de Balderrama, although so young a lad, went to Mindanao
with Don Sebastian; and, while near his Lordship, it happened that a
musket-ball struck the governor's page (who was at his side) in the
flap of his helmet. The ball went in his cheek and came out through
his mouth, and struck Don Francisco in the breast, knocking him down
immediately. However, he received no hurt; for on examining him, it
was found that the ball had passed through his clothing and shirt,
and had struck in some altar-linens which he carried next his breast
through devotion, without its having left any mark on them. That is
esteemed as a miracle. This is what has occurred to me to write your
Reverence. I shall be careful to do the same, God helping, every year,
providing that your Reverence writes me of occurrences there. May
our Lord preserve your Reverence, and give you a prosperous voyage,
etc. Cavite, July 23, 1637. [118]


Juan Lopez [119]





CORCUERA'S TRIUMPHANT ENTRY INTO MANILA

_An account of the reception given in Manila to Señor Hurtado de
Corcuera, when he returned triumphant from Mindanao._ [120]


Yesterday, a little before eleven a.m., we left Cavite in a row-boat
with Don Sebastian, and reached Santiago at one p.m. A short time
before our arrival, some Japanese Christians came out to meet him,
in two champans--the sides of which were entirely surrounded with
shield-shaped forms of white linen cloth adorned with green crosses;
they bore also many white flags, with fresh flowers; and they welcomed
his arrival with blasts from the trumpet that they carried. The
governor received them very cordially; and they, falling behind,
accompanied him. We landed [121] at the house of Amaro Diaz, where
the military headquarters were located. From that place Father Juan
de Barrios and myself went to our house, where we found the father
provincial Father Juan de Bueras, Father Roa, [122] and father Marcelo
[_i.e._, Mastrilli], who had all come to the reception, (but before
I give an account of it, it is to be known that a quarter of an hour
after the arrival of Don Sebastian, there came the champan of Don
Graviel Niño, the only one who was missing.)

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

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