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 fleet proceeded on its way, and reached the fort of Tanda, whose
occupants congratulated themselves again and again at being freed
from danger. The pacification of the insurgents was negotiated, in
which father Fray Jacinto worked mightily. The latter was overjoyed
at having aided the land which was so afflicted. That was a great
service which he rendered to God and to our Catholic monarch, who have
been able to employ our Recollects in this to advantage. With that
aid and some more which was sent from Manila, the insurrection which
had caused so much noise and wrought so much ruin was put down. Our
convents were restored and other religious no less zealous and earnest
succeeded those who had died so gloriously for the faith.
[The Recollects, worthy of their great master St. Augustine, do
not waver in their spiritual conflict, but ever keep the sword of
the faith turned toward the enemy. "Various incidents occur during
that insurrection," one of them being that the Indian who had killed
father Fray Alonso de San Joseph has the arm that had struck that
fatal blow bitten off by a crocodile; but he afterward repents and
becomes a good Christian. Likewise the Indian who had killed father
Fray Pedro de San Antonio dies repentant, having given himself up to
justice. A chief in Bacoag orders his rice to be cooked with portions
of a demolished crucifix, which in burning emits a different colored
flame than ordinary wood, without being consumed. "Four Indians ate
of the rice," but immediately burst. Another crucifix thrown into
the fire does not burn, and is rescued by a devout Indian woman after
one of the arms has been broken off, and is preserved as a precious
relic by the father to whom she gives it.]
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