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
Next day the rebels went to the river of Tago, in high spirits
because they had killed all the Spaniards in the fleet, and spent
three days in carousing. Mangabo ordered them to ring for a mass that
he desired to say. "Come," he said in derision, "to the mass of Father
Mangabo." The people assembled in the church of our convent. An Indian
woman, called Maria Campan, esteemed as one of good life dressed
herself and went through the aspersion, saying, when she sprinkled
the water, "I am Father Jacinto." Mangabo took a holy crucifix, and,
breaking off the arms, said: "God of the Castilians, fight with me;
come let us see whether you are as brave as I." And drawing his
varalao or cris, [15] he struck it crosswise through the face, and
cleft it. "That holy image," says father Fray Lorenço de San Facundo,
whose relation this is, and who passed through that insurrection,
in which he suffered many hardships and dangers, as we shall see
hereafter, "is in my possession." Then he threw down another holy
crucifix of greater stature, and cut it into bits with an ax, defying
it to fight. O Lord! what things dost Thou endure from men! Then the
convent and church were given over to pillage, and a servant of the
convent, named Diego Salingat, was killed.
Mangabo went to Tanda, and, reaching the convent on the nineteenth
of the same month, attacked it at midnight. Dacxa, an Indian chief,
who had refused to take part in that insurrection, hastened to the
defense of the fathers who were in the convent; but he was unable
to defend them, for father Fray Alonso de San Joseph, the prior's
associate, was attacked by the Indians and his head split by a blow of
the campilan. It was discovered afterward that Dacxa was treacherous,
and was taking part with Mangabo in the pillage. The blessed father
was a native of Villa-Cañas, although some make him a native of
Villa-Tobas, in La Mancha the land of Toledo. He professed in the
convent of Valencia, and went to Filipinas in the year 1622 with
father Fray Andrès del Espiritu Santo. He was a religious of great
humility and very observant, on account of which he was appointed
by the superiors prior of the convent of Baldag in the province of
Calamianes, where he gathered abundant fruit in the conversion of
those people. But as he was very near sighted, he had scruples lest
he could not perform his duty well, and finally conceived that he
was incapable of administering it or any other office with the care
of souls. Therefore he petitioned that he be allowed to resign, and
did so. He was permitted to resign, but rather for his consolation
than because he was judged incapable. He went to Manila, where he
gave himself up to the exercise of virtue, without any hindrance. His
superiors seeing that it was not expedient that so excellent a worker
should be idle, sent him to the convent of Tanda, so that he might
as an experienced associate, aid the prior.
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