The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 36, 1649-1666: 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 36, 1649-1666: 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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[Chapter iii deals with the life of certain Recollect religious,
of whom the following labored in the Philippines. Jacinto de San
Fulgencio, the son of Vicente Francisco Claramonte, was born in
Cocentayna, and was received in the convent of Valencia January 17,
1614. He joined the mission to the Philippines which was organized
in 1619; and on his arrival at Manila began to study the languages,
becoming fluent in the Tagálog, Zambal, Bisayan, and Calamian. In 1622
he was sent with Juan de San Nicolás to Caraga, where he worked to
good effect. Later, accompanied by one religious and some converts,
he ascended the river for fifty leguas to Lináo, where his labors
were crowned successfully. He was appointed prior of the convent of
San Joseph in Butuan in 1624, where he continued his work, with the
evident approbation of heaven. In 1626 he became prior of Bacoag, and
later was the first prior of Iguaquét. He was the first to preach to
the Caragas, among whom he remained for ten years, during which time
he erected six convents. In Butuan he worked for four years, where he
converted three thousand people and erected three convents. In 1635
he went to the island of Negros, where he converted six thousand
Indians; and the same year was appointed prior of Tándag, where he
brought order out of chaos. In 1638 he was elected definitor, and in
1640 became prior for the second time of Tándag, and vicar-provincial
of Caraga. He was elected procurator to Spain in 1646, and definitor
with vote in the general chapter in that country, which he reached
in March 1649. His mission which he took from Spain reached Manila
in 1652 and consisted of twenty-one religious. In the next chapter
he was again elected procurator, but he died at Manila in 1656. He
had served as chaplain for the Spanish fleets, and as ambassador to
the natives, in addition to his mission work proper.]
[Section ii of chapter v contains an account of the life of Salvador
del Espiritu Santo, who had formerly been an Augustinian of the
Observant branch, but who joined the Recollects. He went to Manila
in 1634 with the desire to go to Japan, learning some little of
that language for that purpose. After much entreaty he obtained
permission from the provincial of the order to go to Japan in 1635,
but he was unable to effect his purpose. He served as prior in
the Cavite convent, was twice superior of the convent of San Juan
Bautista in Bagnumbáya, prior of the Manila convent, twice definitor;
twice visitor of Calamianes and Mindoro. He was elected procurator in
place of Jacinto de San Fulgencio, and after various setbacks arrived
in Mexico in 1657, where he died in December of that same year.]
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