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
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He took father Fray Lorenço to his house, and brought out Castilian
wine so that he and his associate might drink it, and two chalices,
one from the convent of Tanda, and the other from that of Bacoag. When
father Fray Lorenço saw these, much affected and weeping, he covered
them with the cloth wrapped about them, and said: "Father Mangabo,
since you have given me life, I beseech you not to use those chalices,
and that neither you nor any woman go near them, for I shall burst
with grief." Mangabo replied: "As you say, son," and ordered that
they be not uncovered, but that they be kept with veneration.
Then Mangabo arose and took a holy bronze crucifix which Zangalàn had
taken from father Fray Lorenço, under the impression that it was gold,
saying, "I am keeping this your God until the time when we two go to
Manila." "Keep it," the father said to him, "for He will preserve you
if you respect Him; but if you do not respect Him He will confound you,
for He is God of Heaven and earth." Then Mangabo brought out another
holy crucifix, with its arms cut off and its head split in twain, as
above said, and father Fray Lorenço, falling on his knees before it,
kissed it, weeping and sighing, and kept it for his own consolation.
Then Maria Campan (mentioned above) went out and brought back in a
small casket the chrismatories of the convent of Tago; and father
Fray Lorenço, opening it, saw that nothing was lacking. He wrapped
them in a cloth and charged her to keep them and not to open them,
saying that he would give her six pesos for them, although they did
not have so much money. Father Fray Lorenço could ransom none of it,
for he was without money.
[The holy chrismatories finally render Maria contrite; for, fleeing
from the Spaniards up a river, and having the phials with her, a huge
crocodile thrusts its head into the boat, seizes the phials and makes
off without committing other damage, which so works upon the mind of
the woman that she lives afterward as a good Christian.]
Finally, Mangabo said to father Fray Lorenço: "Son, I see that you
are sick" (he had been seriously injured by the fall of which we have
made mention above). "If you wish to go to be treated at the fort
of the Spaniards, I will have you taken there, and you shall leave
Brother Francisco here, so that he may protect us, if the Castillas
(so they call the Spaniards) come. Remember your father, and aid
him when you are able." Father Fray Lorenço thanked him, and was
taken in a boat to the fort of Caragha. Thus did God preserve the
life of that religious, to whom, if the crown of martyrdom was not
conceded, at least he was quick to suffer for the faith; and in fact
he endured great hardships for the love of the Lord. His associate,
Fray Francisco, was ransomed afterward. He rendered excellent service
while he was a prisoner, in the pacification of the rebellious Indians.
Year 1631
VI
Continuation of the matter of the last chapter, with some cases by
way of example
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