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.
Demarcation line of Alexander VI; Missions -- Philippines; Philippines -- Discovery and exploration; Philippines -- History -- Sources
There are four priests in the city of Manila, who are interpreters,
and are at the expense of his Majesty, so that they may attend to the
ministry to the Indians who go thither from all parts, as that place
is the capital of the islands. They also minister to the mulattoes
and those of other races. At present those priests are Fathers Antonio
Juan Sana, Jose Pimentel, Juan Bautista Suredo, Francisco Manuel.
In the village of San Miguel, which is inhabited by Tagálog Indians,
is Father Magino Sola.
In the village of Santa Cruz, which, is inhabited by Christian
Chinese, mestizos, free negroes, and Tagálogs, are two priests,
namely, Fathers Francisco Ferrer and Ambrosio de la Cruz.
The village of San Pedro, where Indians, Chinese, and mestizos who
work in the surrounding country congregate, has Father Francisco Colin.
In the residence of Antipolo, where there are other villages--namely,
Antipolo, Taytay, and Baras, with four visitas in the mountains--there
have always been three priests. At present there are two, namely,
Fathers Luis Espinelli and Ygnacio Zapata.
In the residence of Silang reside three priests, namely, Fathers
Ygnacio del Monte, Diego de Sanabria, and Juan de Esquerra. They
have charge of three villages, namely, Silang, Yndan, and Maragondon,
and their visitas.
In Cavite, the port of Manila, and in Cavite el Viejo, Fathers Andres
de Ledesma and Juan Lopez attend to all the people of every class.
There are two fathers in four settlements of the island of Marinduque,
namely, Fathers Luis Pimentel and Juan de Espinosa.
BISHOPRIC OF CEBU, OR OF SANTISIMO NOMBRE DE JESUS
In various islands of the bishopric of Cebu there are fifty priests
of the Society of Jesus, in the following residences and villages.
In the city of Cebu itself are two fathers, who attend to the village
of Mandaui and to the many Indians in the said city [of Cebu]. They
are Fathers Domingo Esquerra and Francisco Combés.
There are four fathers in the island of Bohol--namely, Luis Aguayo,
Pedro de Auñon, Bartolome Sanchez, and Francisco de la Peña--who attend
to all the villages of the said island, five in number, called Loboc,
Baclayon, Panglao, Ynabangan, and Malabohoc, and their visitas.
Island of Leyte
The Society has two residences in this island. The first is that of
Carigara, where there are six priests, namely, Juan de Avila, Juan de
la Rea, Pedro Carlos Cristobal de Lara, Andres Vallejo, and Antonio de
Abarca. They instruct twelve villages, namely, Carigara, Leyte, Jaro,
Barugo, Alangalan, Ocmug, Baybay, Cabalian, Sogor, Ynonangan, Panaon,
and Luca. Those villages are scattered through a space of sixty leguas.
The second residence in the same island is that of Dagami. Its villages
number ten, namely, Dagami, Malaguicay, Tainbuco, Dulag, Bito,
Abuyo, Palo, Basey, Guinan, and Balanguigan. They are in charge of
six fathers, namely, Carlos de Lemos, Diego de las Cuevas, Francisco
Luzon, Laudencio Horta, Juan de la Calle, and Jose de Leon.
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