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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 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

Name: 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
Author: Aduarte, Diego

Aduarte, Diego

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being very few in number, were called on to die rather than accept
that which he asked of them so much to their dishonor. It seemed to
all necessary to send a special embassy to Japan with an answer. Father
Fray Juan Cobo was chosen by the governor as the most suitable person
to represent España who could be found in the island, both because
of his natural gifts and because of his acquirements. He acquitted
himself marvelously well in this occupation, greatly amazing and
pleasing the emperor of Japon. The emperor went so far as to permit
the churches of the Society of Jesus to be rebuilt, and to allow the
fathers publicly to prosecute the conversion of the Japanese. The
emperor requested father Fray Juan to remain in his kingdom; but
he declined, as having no order to do so. At his return, they set
sail in a tempestuous season, which cost them very dear, because
the vessel in which father Fray Juan was carried was cast on shore
in a country of barbarous Indians, namely, that which is known as the
island of Hermosa. Escaping to the shore to avoid the furious sea, they
fell into the hands of those ferocious people, who killed them all,
to a man. After the death of father Fray Juan, father Fray Pedro de
Soto had a vision of the father, who was in purgatory, being purified
for the sin of having hastened his departure too greatly. Afterward,
father Fray Luis Gandullo had a vision of him in paradise.]





CHAPTER XXXIV

The death of father Fray Francisco de la Mina, and the council which
was held in place of the intermediate provincial chapter.


[Father Fray Francisco de la Mina was a native of Andalucia, where he
assumed the habit of the order. He afterward went to Mexico, preaching
there both in Spanish and in the Indian language. He was one of those
who formed the plan of sending from that province some religious
to ask for the approval of the most reverend general of the order
for the foundation of the new province in the Philipinas. He served
in the mission to the Indians of Bataan, learning their language;
and was afterward appointed prior of Manila, the second post in the
province. He lost his health after his return to Manila, and soon died.

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