The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55: 1637-38; 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 28 of 55: 1637-38; 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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634. In its jurisdiction it embraces the whole provinces of Camarines
and Albay, and as far as and inclusive of the islands of Ticao,
Masbate, Burias, and Catanduanes; the province of Tayabas, as far
as and inclusive of Lucban; and, along the opposite coast of Mauban,
[it contains] Binangonan, Polo, Valer, and Casiguran.
Chapter LV
Curacies and administrations of the bishopric of Nueva Caceres
Curacies
650. That bishopric possesses the curacy of the sacristy of the
holy church of Nueva Caceres; and in the province of Camarines,
the curacies of Indan, Paracale, Capalonga, Caramoan, and Lagonoy,
with several visitas. Those curacies number 11,984 souls.
651. In the province of Tayabas, the curacies of Piris, Obuyon,
and Mulanay, with their visitas, in all numbering 5,161 persons.
652. In the province of Albay, the curacies of Albay, Bulusan,
Casiguran, Sorsogon, Donsol, Tabaco, and Malinao, with their visitas,
in all 18,562 persons.
653. In the island of Catanduanes, the curacies of Biga, and Birac,
numbering 6,471 persons. [65]
Administrations in charge of religious
654. The calced Augustinian fathers possess in that bishopric, in
the province of Tayabas, the administration of the village of Tiaong,
where 780 souls are reckoned.
655. The discalced Augustinian fathers possess, in the island of
Masbate, the sites of Maboo, Balino, Palano, Abuyoan, Camasoso,
Buracan, Limbohan, Nauangui, and Baraga, in which they minister to
about 3,345 souls.
656. In the island of Burias, the village of Burias, with 180 souls.
657. In the island of Ticao, the village of Ticao, with San Jacinto,
with 475 souls. [66]
658. The discalced Franciscan religious of this province of San
Gregorio have administration in what they own in that bishopric,
in a convent of the village of Naga, contiguous to the city of
Nueva Caceres, in the province of Camarines. A commissary-provincial
lives there, and they have a good infirmary. They also minister in
the villages of Canaman, Quipayo, Milaord, Minalabag, Bula, and Bao,
Naboa, Yraga, Buhi, Libong, Polangi, Oas, Ligao, Guinobatan, Camarines,
Cagsaua, and Ligmanan, where they minister to 52,555 souls.
659. In the province of Tayabas, in the villages of Tayabas, Pagbilao,
Saryaya, Lucban, Gumaca, Atimonan, Mayoboc, and Macalilong, in which
13,807 souls are ministered to.
660. In the mission of the mountains of Lupi, Ragay, and the beach
of Bangon, with their village formed in Lupi, in the province of
Camarines, where nine hundred souls are ministered to.
661. In the same province, in the mountain of Mangirin, in the village
of Santa Cruz, formed from the people who are being gathered from
the mountain, where 1,200 souls are ministered to.
662. In the province of Tayabas, in the mountains and coasts of
the opposite shore, in the villages of Binangonan, Polo, Valer, and
Casiguran, which include the administration of the Indians, with the
missions annexed to them, and where 2,500 souls are ministered to. [67]
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