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
The religious of this convent have not been content with attending to
the consolation of the soldiers of those fortresses, and administration
of the sacraments to them, as the chaplains of his Majesty, but they
have always endeavored to plant the holy gospel in the surrounding
kingdoms. Fathers Fray Cristoval del Castillo, Fray Martín de San
Juan, Fray Gregorio de San Esteban, [86] Fray Pedro de la Concepción,
and a lay-brother, Fray Benito Díaz, entered the kingdom of Manados,
where at various times they tried to convert that kingdom to the holy
gospel. Father Fray Diego de Roxas died there, occupied in the same
preaching of the holy gospel, with so much approbation of life that
the natives of the kingdom buried his body in a new sepulcher, which
they inclosed and preserved with so great veneration and respect that,
although our religious of Therrenate have gone there for his bones,
the natives have always refused to give them up. Father Fray Bias
de Palomino (of whom we made mention above) also returned from this
kingdom, to Therrenate, and, since he had already learned the languages
of those kingdoms, wished to preach in the kingdom of Tagalanda. He
disembarked for that purpose, trusting to those islanders, who, being
barbarians, killed him as above stated. Some of our religious of
Therrenate have entered the kingdom of Macasar for the same purpose
of preaching the gospel, and of offering the word of God on various
occasions to the kings of that kingdom. Although the latter did
not receive the word, they did not maltreat the religious. On the
contrary, some villages, called Meados, which have preserved peace
with our Spaniards of Therrenate in the said kingdom of Manados, have
been very favorable to our religious. They have aided the forts with
what provisions they had there. In the years of the Lord, forty-three
and forty-four, some Spaniards who had gone to get provisions were in
those villages. The Indians rose up against them. Two religious were
also in the said villages, namely, father Fray Juan Yranzo and Fray
Lorenzo Garalda, [87] who had gone thither to convert the people. The
Indians killed some of the Spaniards. Father Juan Yranzo escaped with
some Spaniards, but father Fray Lorenço was killed at that time. When
father Fray Vicente Argente, [88] then the provincial minister of
that province, investigated the matter and how it had happened,
the witnesses declared that the Indians had refused to kill father
Fray Lorenço, but that the priests of their idols insisted upon it, by
saying that they were very angry because priests had been admitted into
their kingdom who prevented their idolatry. That was the reason why
he suffered so many hardships. He died seven days after. His body was
found upon its knees, and the Indians hid and kept it refusing to give
it up. That religious was always considered a man of excellent spirit
and zeal. Father Fray Bartolomé de San Diego [89] and brother Fray
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