The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 35, 1640-1649: 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 — John Shaqi
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 35, 1640-1649: 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 35, 1640-1649: 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
Demarcation line of Alexander VI; Missions -- Philippines; Philippines -- Discovery and exploration; Philippines -- History -- Sources
were angered, and the heathen were scandalized. The new congregation
of San Pablo, victorious in its contention, rejoiced. Some of them,
although few, made no disturbance. There were also two of the old
fathers who went to profess in the new congregation (for the most
healthy body has four distinct humors [4]). A distinct set of rules
were made. Although it was ordained for an honorable purpose, yet
truly, the observation of the rules of the province would perhaps aid
that purpose more. Some very holy and venerated rules were broken;
and at the end they did not pass one step in advance, but were on the
contrary given a great setback. But the true and affectionate mother,
who had given birth so gloriously amid so great travail, bewailed
inconsolably the division of her offspring, seeing that it was caused
by plots of the devil, so that the apostolic missions of those kingdoms
should be neither of the one nor of the other congregation. She had
recourse to the only refuge for her sorrows, namely, the most holy
image of the rosary, with continual prayer and litanies--an empirical
remedy whose virtue had been so proved by the Order (especially in
the protection from authorities ruled by passion). So was its efficacy
experienced in this instance; for after sixteen months, during which
time the pretended congregation of San Pablo lasted, the Lord worked
his miracles by the following means. Among the many who were grieved
at the archbishop's case, and its consequences--which succeeded one
another daily, with new causes for anxiety--one was our Fray Diego
Collado; for although he was protected by the governor, yet being
a religious full of zeal, necessarily such lawlessness struck him
full in the face. After warnings and sermons, seeing that nothing
was of avail, he was determined to write most fully to the king
of España, or to his Council, of these occurrences and significant
considerations. He sent his letter by the ship that sailed that year;
he must afterward have told what he had done, so that it came to
the ears of the governor. The latter summoned the said father, and,
talking to him in friendly manner, and excusing himself for what he
had done, said to him when he thought that the father was pliable:
"I am a friend to your Reverence, Father-vicar, and indeed you know
how I esteem you and how I have labored in your demand. I have learned
that your Reverence has written against me, and I am not surprised,
for your Reverence would not have been so excellent a religious had you
not done it. The letter is now on its way to España, but you will do me
the favor to give me the rough draft of it, in order that I may clear
up a doubt that I have, and for the satisfaction of your Reverence,
for you are charged with writing false things, that are unworthy
of a person of so great virtue." Father Collado seeing that he was
persuaded with so much affability, promised to do it. He took him
the rough draft, and his Lordship on seeing it was so indignant that,
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