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 above were not the only dangers suffered by Ours in that
insurrection of Caragha; for the Indian chiefs, dividing into different
bands, went to various districts, not only to make those who were
quiet revolt, but to wipe out the Spaniards, to kill the religious,
and to destroy the convents, in their hatred for our holy faith.
July 22, the day of the Magdalene, the father teacher, Fray
Lorenço de San Facundo, was saying mass in the convent of Bacoag,
which was attended by the Spaniards, and the traitor Zancalàn (one
of the leaders of the revolt), and his wife Doña Geronima Moag,
and a dozen Indians. The father was disturbed at seeing them, and
having asked who those Indians were, and being answered that they
were the son and daughter-in-law of Mangabo, he calmed himself. In
their carousals the Indians had determined upon the murder, one
after another, of the three Spaniards there, and the two religious,
father Fray Lorenço de San Facundo, and his associate, a brother,
Fray Francisco de San Fulgencio; for these seemed many to them. They
killed the three Spaniards treacherously; and at the hour of vespers,
Zancalàn put in an appearance with seven Indians. Zancalàn went to
kiss the hand of father Fray Lorenço, who was just finishing the
burial of a dead woman. With other like courtesies the Indians
went up to see the convent, accompanied by the father teacher,
when one Indian seized him by the shoulders crying out to another:
"Strike him!" The father boldly wrenched himself loose, and shoved the
Indian against a post. Then he ran to jump through a window, where
they pushed him so that he fell on his back upon a piece of timber,
from which he sustained severe injuries. The house was in confusion;
various weapons were seized; father Fray Lorenço arose as well as
he was able, and fled to the landing-place. Three Indians followed
him with lances. An Indian went to him and said: "Father, take this
machete, that they may not kill thee." One of the three threw his
lance at the father. The lance passed through his tunic near his right
thigh, the father escaping that blow by jumping aside. He seized the
lance, and, with it and the machete, retired to the convent. When
he arrived, Zancalàn went out with lance and cuirass to kill father
Fray Lorenço. The latter defended himself skilfully, and entered the
convent, where brother Fray Francisco was defending himself with a
musket from the multitude who were attacking him.
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