The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 of 55, 1640: 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 centuryAduarte, Diego
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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 of 55, 1640: 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
Aduarte, Diego
Demarcation line of Alexander VI; Missions -- Philippines; Philippines -- Discovery and exploration; Philippines -- History -- Sources
what was required for baptism, which he received, but enough for him
to teach those of his own nation all they required for baptism. This
he did marvelously, and greatly diminished the labor which fell on
the religious. He was named Bartholome Tamban; and he lived with the
religious many years, being as one of them in prayer, discipline,
and their other penances. He frequented often, and with much purity,
the holy sacraments of penance and the eucharist. When he had served
in the hospital for eighteen years, he married; and he lived a very
exemplary life in the state of marriage, heard mass every day with
great devotion, and, after coming to the first mass did not leave
the church until he had heard all that was said, in the church at
his village of Minondoc. In the year 1612 he died, leaving behind him
the name not only of a good Christian, but of a very devoted servant
of God. The hospital was afterward built with large stone pillars,
but, as the number of the sick constantly increased, and as there
was not room enough for them in that house, they erected another
building, very large and handsome, which was finished in 1625; and
both are still used. Since at some times they cannot accommodate the
sick because of their number, another one is now being built, still
larger and finer. The Lord always supplies it with great abundance,
as a house that continually furnishes Him people for heaven--those
who, if they had died out of the hospital, would necessarily have
died in their unbelief, and would have gone to people hell.
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