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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

329. In the year 1646 was celebrated the intermediary chapter of that
holy province, during the provincialate of our father Fray Juan de San
Antonio. In it the venerable father Fray Jacinto de San Fulgencio was
chosen to come to España and attend, as one of the voting fathers,
the seventh general chapter which was to be celebrated in the city
of Valladolid in the year 48; and especially, so that he might enlist
evangelical soldiers who should go to work in the spiritual conquest
of the Indians--for, since so many religious had been captured, there
was a lack of them. The said father Fray Jacinto could not embark that
same year, because of the great disturbances caused on the sea by the
Dutch, as already remarked. Consequently, he did not reach the city
and court of Madrid until March, 1649, after the chapter had already
been held. In that chapter, our venerable father Fray Pedro Manuel
de San Agustin was elected vicar-general of all the congregation.

330. The said our father vicar-general was outside the court visiting
the provinces, when the father commissary arrived. Accordingly, the
latter wrote to him, petitioning him to advise the convents of his
coming so that the religious might in that way learn of the opportunity
presented to them to go to employ their talents in the new world. Our
father vicar-general attended to that with the so holy zeal that he
was known to possess. His pastoral letter was filled with the flames
of divine love; for he inspired the souls of the religious in such a
manner that, in a few days, he had the signatures of more than fifty of
them. At that same time his Reverence received a paper from the convent
of San Carlos de Turin (which belongs to our Recollect congregation
in Italia) in which father Fray Celestino de San Christoval, lecturer
in theology, father Fray Bruno de San Guillermo, and father Fray
Archangel de Santa Maria petitioned him very urgently to admit them
in that mission, binding themselves to get the permissions of their
prelates. But, praising their good intention, our father vicar-general
refused to admit them on the ground of the royal decree that forbids
the passing [to the Philippines] of foreigners.

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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

329. In the year 1646 was celebrated the intermediary chapter of that
holy province, during the provincialate of our father Fray Juan de San
Antonio. In it the venerable father Fray Jacinto de San Fulgencio was
chosen to come to España and attend, as one of the voting fathers,
the seventh general chapter which was to be celebrated in the city
of Valladolid in the year 48; and especially, so that he might enlist
evangelical soldiers who should go to work in the spiritual conquest
of the Indians--for, since so many religious had been captured, there
was a lack of them. The said father Fray Jacinto could not embark that
same year, because of the great disturbances caused on the sea by the
Dutch, as already remarked. Consequently, he did not reach the city
and court of Madrid until March, 1649, after the chapter had already
been held. In that chapter, our venerable father Fray Pedro Manuel
de San Agustin was elected vicar-general of all the congregation.

330. The said our father vicar-general was outside the court visiting
the provinces, when the father commissary arrived. Accordingly, the
latter wrote to him, petitioning him to advise the convents of his
coming so that the religious might in that way learn of the opportunity
presented to them to go to employ their talents in the new world. Our
father vicar-general attended to that with the so holy zeal that he
was known to possess. His pastoral letter was filled with the flames
of divine love; for he inspired the souls of the religious in such a
manner that, in a few days, he had the signatures of more than fifty of
them. At that same time his Reverence received a paper from the convent
of San Carlos de Turin (which belongs to our Recollect congregation
in Italia) in which father Fray Celestino de San Christoval, lecturer
in theology, father Fray Bruno de San Guillermo, and father Fray
Archangel de Santa Maria petitioned him very urgently to admit them
in that mission, binding themselves to get the permissions of their
prelates. But, praising their good intention, our father vicar-general
refused to admit them on the ground of the royal decree that forbids
the passing [to the Philippines] of foreigners.

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

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