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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

Demarcation line of Alexander VI; Missions -- Philippines; Philippines -- Discovery and exploration; Philippines -- History -- Sources

A report from Manila to the royal Council of the Indias is also
cited. In it the testimony of the most distinguished ecclesiastics
of the cabildo is given, of their head the archbishop, at that time
Vazquez de Marcado, and of the majority of the secular clergy, and
they all bear witness to the virtue and devotion of the members of
the province. In 1636 the accusation was brought that all the orders
carried on trade with Japan; but this province brought evidence
to the contrary, so far as it was concerned. The testimony of one
witness may be cited here, the chief captain, who had in that year
come from Macan. This was Captain Francisco de Abreo, of the Order
of Santiago. He testified on oath that he had known the religious of
the province of the Rosary for sixteen years; and that he had been
acquainted with them in the realm of Japon, in Camboxa, and in other
places where these holy religious had settled with no other object
or purpose than the service of God and of his Majesty our lord the
king. He went on to declare that they were occupied with nothing
else than the conversion of souls--as is evident of itself, from the
fact that the religious of these provinces have kept and still keep,
with the greatest devotion, their vow of poverty and the other vows
which they have professed. It is evident to all that they depend for
their living upon the alms given by his Majesty, and by other faithful
in this city. Another evidence of this fact is that they share with
those who are settled in the kingdom of Japon, whither they have gone
to suffer martyrdom and convert souls to God. The religious of the
Philippinas send to them what they can, that in the midst of all the
suffering which those fathers endure in the said kingdoms they may
not lack sustenance, small though it be--as indeed it must be small,
considering the amount which is sent them. It never surpasses four
hundred or five hundred pesos; and the manner of sending it is well
known to this witness. It was to ask the captains, or some other
persons who went in the ships belonging to the city of Macan, to
carry to the fathers in Japan their support every year, since many
of these persons, as soon as they went from here, made the voyage
to the kingdom of Iapon. The testimony ends with the most emphatic
affirmation of the exemplary life of the members of the order, and
of their high reputation.]





CHAPTER XVIII

The same subject is continued with testimony taken from regions and
persons at a greater distance

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