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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

History

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

12. Noteworthy conversions followed at this juncture, the noise of
arms. Most exemplary punishments were seen and experienced from
heaven on the aggressors, and singular portents in the profaned
and destroyed images. An idolatrous Indian, in sport of an image
of the crucified Christ, threw it into the fire; he observed with
wonder that the fire, respecting the image, did not burn it. The
barbarian took it from the fire and, buffeting it about, threw it
down with great violence so that one of its arms was broken. A devout
Christian Indian woman took the holy image, and kept it with great
care. After the pacification she gave it to father Fray Jacinto to
whom she gave a minute description of the affair. The father made
a solemn investigation of it and many witnesses confirmed it and
confessed her declaration to be true. The father took that holy
Christ to Manila, the following year, and presented it to Governor
Don Juan Niño de Tavora. He received it with singular devotion and
tenderness, and determined to replace it in its oratory with great
ceremonies. Father Fray Jazinto tried to get the governor first to
repair the image and supply the missing arm by another. That most
Christian gentleman replied: "No, Father, it must remain as it is
for my confusion, since my sins treated Him thus." With such pious
and kind reflections did he excuse the impiety of the barbarians
in actions so sacrilegious. Presidios were erected and fortified,
in order to keep the country pacified. Thus through their fear of
the soldiers, and with the punishments so present before their eyes,
those villages were kept, and remain even to the present, in entire
quiet. However, they have become much diminished because of the many
natives who have withdrawn because of the severities and persecutions
practiced by the Moros, from which that province has suffered so much.

[La Concepción recounts (ut supra, pp. 360-391) the fortunes of the
Recollect missions in northern Mindanao, especially in the region of
Lake Lanao. His narrative is sufficiently different from that of Luis
de Jesús to be given in full.]




CHAPTER XV

Wars and conquests in the lake of Malanao

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History

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

12. Noteworthy conversions followed at this juncture, the noise of
arms. Most exemplary punishments were seen and experienced from
heaven on the aggressors, and singular portents in the profaned
and destroyed images. An idolatrous Indian, in sport of an image
of the crucified Christ, threw it into the fire; he observed with
wonder that the fire, respecting the image, did not burn it. The
barbarian took it from the fire and, buffeting it about, threw it
down with great violence so that one of its arms was broken. A devout
Christian Indian woman took the holy image, and kept it with great
care. After the pacification she gave it to father Fray Jacinto to
whom she gave a minute description of the affair. The father made
a solemn investigation of it and many witnesses confirmed it and
confessed her declaration to be true. The father took that holy
Christ to Manila, the following year, and presented it to Governor
Don Juan Niño de Tavora. He received it with singular devotion and
tenderness, and determined to replace it in its oratory with great
ceremonies. Father Fray Jazinto tried to get the governor first to
repair the image and supply the missing arm by another. That most
Christian gentleman replied: "No, Father, it must remain as it is
for my confusion, since my sins treated Him thus." With such pious
and kind reflections did he excuse the impiety of the barbarians
in actions so sacrilegious. Presidios were erected and fortified,
in order to keep the country pacified. Thus through their fear of
the soldiers, and with the punishments so present before their eyes,
those villages were kept, and remain even to the present, in entire
quiet. However, they have become much diminished because of the many
natives who have withdrawn because of the severities and persecutions
practiced by the Moros, from which that province has suffered so much.

[La Concepción recounts (ut supra, pp. 360-391) the fortunes of the
Recollect missions in northern Mindanao, especially in the region of
Lake Lanao. His narrative is sufficiently different from that of Luis
de Jesús to be given in full.]




CHAPTER XV

Wars and conquests in the lake of Malanao

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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