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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.

History

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

260. Dabáo went by night to the houses of the chief Christians. He
laid before them the harsh decree of the governor, the offers that
the Dutch had made, and especially the attaining of freedom to keep up
their old religion. Since they were not well rooted in our holy faith,
those discussions were very agreeable to them. That faithless Indian
was so contagious a cancer that he infected the greater part of the
village with his poison. Therefore, almost all of them assenting to
his plan, the day was set on which he resolved to kill the Spaniards
and the minister. He warned the people to be ready with their arms
to aid him. He had previously held a meeting with his Manóbos, in
which they decided that if the provincial sent a visitor and did
not come personally to make the visitation, it would be a clear sign
that the Dutch were infesting those coasts. When they learned with
certainty that the father-provincial, Fray Bernardo de San Laurencio,
had not gone out for the visitation, but that he was sending the
father ex-provincial, Fray Juan de San Antonio, as visitor, they
were confirmed [in the belief] that the hostile fleet was coming,
and began immediately to stir up the country.

261. The father visitor had already reached the convent of Butuán,
and Dabáo sent his Manóbo Indians to the river Humáyan with obsequious
appearances of readiness to receive him, but with the peremptory
order to kill him. God so arranged that the father visitor, Fray
Juan de San Antonio, should pass to the convent of Cagayáng without
stopping to visit that of Lináo. He left a letter for the father
prior of Lináo which he sent by Juan de Guevara, one of the soldiers
who was later killed in the fray. That soldier met the Manóbos who
were waiting at the river; they asked him for the father visitor,
and he told them simply that he had left Butuán. They, without asking
whether the father were to pass that way, returned to their village
to inform their leader of the matter. Thus did God save the life of
His minister for the second time, thereby allowing one to see even
in so slight occurrences the height of His Providence.

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History

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

260. Dabáo went by night to the houses of the chief Christians. He
laid before them the harsh decree of the governor, the offers that
the Dutch had made, and especially the attaining of freedom to keep up
their old religion. Since they were not well rooted in our holy faith,
those discussions were very agreeable to them. That faithless Indian
was so contagious a cancer that he infected the greater part of the
village with his poison. Therefore, almost all of them assenting to
his plan, the day was set on which he resolved to kill the Spaniards
and the minister. He warned the people to be ready with their arms
to aid him. He had previously held a meeting with his Manóbos, in
which they decided that if the provincial sent a visitor and did
not come personally to make the visitation, it would be a clear sign
that the Dutch were infesting those coasts. When they learned with
certainty that the father-provincial, Fray Bernardo de San Laurencio,
had not gone out for the visitation, but that he was sending the
father ex-provincial, Fray Juan de San Antonio, as visitor, they
were confirmed [in the belief] that the hostile fleet was coming,
and began immediately to stir up the country.

261. The father visitor had already reached the convent of Butuán,
and Dabáo sent his Manóbo Indians to the river Humáyan with obsequious
appearances of readiness to receive him, but with the peremptory
order to kill him. God so arranged that the father visitor, Fray
Juan de San Antonio, should pass to the convent of Cagayáng without
stopping to visit that of Lináo. He left a letter for the father
prior of Lináo which he sent by Juan de Guevara, one of the soldiers
who was later killed in the fray. That soldier met the Manóbos who
were waiting at the river; they asked him for the father visitor,
and he told them simply that he had left Butuán. They, without asking
whether the father were to pass that way, returned to their village
to inform their leader of the matter. Thus did God save the life of
His minister for the second time, thereby allowing one to see even
in so slight occurrences the height of His Providence.

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

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