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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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those who confessed there deserved that name--for example, that of
Doña Ana de Vera, Doña Marina de Cespedes, Catalina de Villegas,
and many other women very well known and esteemed in the city on
account of their virtue. In this they all owed no little to the aid of
their holy confessors, who with great care, much teaching, and their
own examples, did the work of God, and succeeded in attracting many
people to the knowledge of Him and to His service. Many, in health,
did not follow their counsels, regarding them as too severe, and
sought for confessors who feared to lose their penitents, and who,
by making their theology liberal, unburdened the consciences of those
who confessed to them. Yet even these persons in the hour of death,
when their desires had lost some of their force, called for the
Dominicans and gave to them the charge of their souls, fearing to
lose them by following the road which they had taken in health. And
this freedom and courage has always been maintained in this convent;
and they have used it without respect of persons--with rich and poor,
with governors and other officials. Hence it is necessary for them
to live in such a manner that no reproach can be cast upon them,
and to be content with but little for their sustenance, since that
little cannot fail them. Withal they have no regard to pleasing men,
for to Saint Paul it seemed that with that desire it was impossible to
unite the service of God--mankind being in general greater lovers of
themselves than of God, and hence he who is very desirous to please men
being necessarily at enmity with God. Therefore, these religious were
very careful in this respect, and strove so to conduct themselves
toward men that the supreme place should always be held by God;
and on this account they had the reputation of rigor--though they
were not rigorous, except to those who through their own desires or
selfishness tried to cast aside their duties to God.





CHAPTER XI

Some marvels wrought by the Lord in the convent of Manila, and the
rebuilding of the same

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