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
The father teacher, Fray Juan de Santo Tomàs, was prior. Hearing the
attack of the barbarians from his retreat, and going outside, he saw
Dacxa, to whom he went and whom he asked for protection. The latter
in pity embraced the father and endeavored to save his life, but an
Indian came up and thrust the father through the body with a lance,
and he died on his knees. Then the Indians went to the convent and
sacked and profaned it as they had done to that of Tago, and finally
burned it.
[The above father was born in San Pablo de los Montes in the
archbishopric of Toledo. He took the Recollect habit in the convent of
Valladolid, where he became a close student. He went to the Philippines
in 1620 with Onofre de la Madre de Dios and other religious, where
he was appointed to found the convent of Cuyo, of which he was made
prior, being also made vicar-provincial of the other convents in the
islands. He was later appointed prior of the convent of Tanda, where
he was killed. His body, which was buried at some little distance
from the church, was given decent burial after seven years--when it
was disinterred for that purpose, being found to be wholly preserved
except at the tip of the nose.]
On the twenty-first of the same month of July, father Fray Pedro de
San Antonio, former prior of the convent of Bacoag, had left that
convent. The rebellious Indians, having heard that he was in Surigao,
a visita of the priorate, despatched Mañan Galan and other Indians
to kill him. They found him at the landing-place of Don Diego Amian,
reciting the canonical hours. One of them went to father Fray Pedro
dissemblingly, and told him that there were many enemies in the land
and that he had come to advise him of it. The blessed father asked
him certain questions in regard to it, to which the Indian replied
maliciously and with lies; and, at the instant when father Fray Pedro
turned his back, thrust him through with a lance. The father fell to
the ground, invoking the names of Jesus and Mary, with the utterance
of which he yielded up his spirit. Many Indians who were hidden came
up, took the blessed body, and dragging it thither threw it into the
river, with great joy and gladness.
That venerable father was a native of Granada in Andaluzia and went
to Filipinas with father Fray Rodrigo de San Miguel (of whom we have
already written at length). He greatly admired the exemplary conduct
of our religious, and asked for the habit in the convent of Manila,
where he professed. Behaving in a religious manner, he was assigned
to some missions, and enlightened the Bisayas with the light of the
evangelical word. He had assumed the dignity of the priorate of Bacoag,
at the time of the insurrection of the Caraghas, and at the time of
the events which we have related.
Year 1631
V
Mention of some dangers suffered by Ours in the insurrection of the
Caraghas Indians
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