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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

History

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

[103] Blas de la Madre de Dios was born in Lisboa, Portugal, and
was early sent by his parents to engage in the Indian trade. He
settled in the city of Malaca, where, after contributing all his
possessions to charity, he took the habit in 1582. In 1585 he
went to the Philippines, where having learned the language, he was
assigned to the village of Morong. Thence he went to the village
of Pila, and helped establish the village of Guilinguiling (1600),
and was later in that of Palilla. In the chapter of May 14, 1605,
he was elected definitor and minister of Meycauayan, and was later
assigned to the village of Paete. October 29, 1611, he was elected
provincial, and during his term the villages of Daet, Bactas, and
Paracale were established. He was the first provincial to visit the
province of Ituy, where he suffered many hardships. At the end of
his provincialate he was assigned to the village of Lumbang. In 1618
he went to Mexico whence he returned to Manila in 1621, going the
same year to the village of Mabitac. March 15, 1622, he was elected
vicar-provincial, but in June of that same year went to the village of
Santa Cruz de Potac. He went to the village of Pangil in June, 1625,
whence he retired sick to Pila, where he died September 7, 1626. He
left a number of writings, among them a treatise on the flora of the
Philippines, the first one to be written. See Huerta, pp. 448, 449.

[104] "O height of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how
incomprehensible are the tokens of the one and how unsearchable the
nature of the other!"

[105] A somewhat hasty and vague statement of the case as given by
Gonzalez in Aduarte's Historia (ed. 1640), p. 404. What Concepción
means to say is, that Aduarte renounced the rights conferred upon
him by the briefs and decrees, enabling him to compel the missionary
friars to submit to diocesan visitation and examination--doing so on
the ground that such supervision would be injurious to the Indians
in their charge. See our VOL. XXXII, p. 283.






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History

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

[103] Blas de la Madre de Dios was born in Lisboa, Portugal, and
was early sent by his parents to engage in the Indian trade. He
settled in the city of Malaca, where, after contributing all his
possessions to charity, he took the habit in 1582. In 1585 he
went to the Philippines, where having learned the language, he was
assigned to the village of Morong. Thence he went to the village
of Pila, and helped establish the village of Guilinguiling (1600),
and was later in that of Palilla. In the chapter of May 14, 1605,
he was elected definitor and minister of Meycauayan, and was later
assigned to the village of Paete. October 29, 1611, he was elected
provincial, and during his term the villages of Daet, Bactas, and
Paracale were established. He was the first provincial to visit the
province of Ituy, where he suffered many hardships. At the end of
his provincialate he was assigned to the village of Lumbang. In 1618
he went to Mexico whence he returned to Manila in 1621, going the
same year to the village of Mabitac. March 15, 1622, he was elected
vicar-provincial, but in June of that same year went to the village of
Santa Cruz de Potac. He went to the village of Pangil in June, 1625,
whence he retired sick to Pila, where he died September 7, 1626. He
left a number of writings, among them a treatise on the flora of the
Philippines, the first one to be written. See Huerta, pp. 448, 449.

[104] "O height of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how
incomprehensible are the tokens of the one and how unsearchable the
nature of the other!"

[105] A somewhat hasty and vague statement of the case as given by
Gonzalez in Aduarte's Historia (ed. 1640), p. 404. What Concepción
means to say is, that Aduarte renounced the rights conferred upon
him by the briefs and decrees, enabling him to compel the missionary
friars to submit to diocesan visitation and examination--doing so on
the ground that such supervision would be injurious to the Indians
in their charge. See our VOL. XXXII, p. 283.






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