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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

333. For twenty days they suffered violent and contrary winds, but God
delivered them from that peril and from other very serious dangers. He
preserved them also from an epidemic that was raging in the port of
Vera-Cruz--a disease called vomito prieto, [30] from whose malignancy
the greater part of those who had embarked died, although only one of
our religious perished. They reached Mexico all worn out, and remained
in that city until March 10, 1652. Finally they reembarked in the port
of Acapulco, whence they had a fortunate passage to the Philipinas
Islands. They arrived there so opportunely that the fathers were
discussing the abandonment of some of the missions because of their
so great need of ministers. Consequently, they gave many thanks to the
divine Majesty for those religious who arrived at so suitable a season.

[Chapter iii consists of accounts of the lives of various Recollect
fathers. Those who labored in the Philippines are the following. Miguel
de Santa Maria was a native of Cadiz and a son of Rodrigo Lopez de
Almansa. He professed in the Manila convent June 26, 1618, at the
age of 28. Later he became prior of the Caraga mission, and founded
the convent of Tándag. In 1624 he was elected procuratol-general
of the Philippine province. He attempted in 1629 and 1630 to go
to Japan; but in the first year the vessel was wrecked, and in the
second the governor forbade the journey. He was sent finally to the
mission at Cuyo, but the troubles with the Moros compelled him to
flee. Reaching Manila, he refused the offer of the secretaryship to the
visitor-general, and the remainder of his life was spent in that city,
his death occurring in the year 1644 or 1651. Gaspar de Santa Monica
was a native of the city of Orihuela, in Valencia, his family name
being Padrós. He took the habit in the convent at Valencia, November 1,
1613. He joined the mission organized by Andrés del Espíritu Santo, and
arrived at Manila in 1622. The following year he was appointed prior
of the convent of Marivelez; and in 1624, when the first provincial
chapter of the order was held in the Philippines, he was elected
prior of the convent of Cuyo, where he suffered many hardships. He
became secretary to Andrés del Espíritu Santo upon the election of
the latter to the provincialate in 1626; but, falling ill, he was
unable to perform the duties of that office and was made prior of
the convent of Calumpán, in 1627. In 1629 he was one of the religious
shipwrecked in the endeavor to reach Japan surreptitiously. He became
definitor of the province in 1632, and in 1638 prior of the convent
at Lináo. On the completion of that office in 1642 it does not appear
that he filled other posts. He died in the city of Manila in 1651.]

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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

333. For twenty days they suffered violent and contrary winds, but God
delivered them from that peril and from other very serious dangers. He
preserved them also from an epidemic that was raging in the port of
Vera-Cruz--a disease called vomito prieto, [30] from whose malignancy
the greater part of those who had embarked died, although only one of
our religious perished. They reached Mexico all worn out, and remained
in that city until March 10, 1652. Finally they reembarked in the port
of Acapulco, whence they had a fortunate passage to the Philipinas
Islands. They arrived there so opportunely that the fathers were
discussing the abandonment of some of the missions because of their
so great need of ministers. Consequently, they gave many thanks to the
divine Majesty for those religious who arrived at so suitable a season.

[Chapter iii consists of accounts of the lives of various Recollect
fathers. Those who labored in the Philippines are the following. Miguel
de Santa Maria was a native of Cadiz and a son of Rodrigo Lopez de
Almansa. He professed in the Manila convent June 26, 1618, at the
age of 28. Later he became prior of the Caraga mission, and founded
the convent of Tándag. In 1624 he was elected procuratol-general
of the Philippine province. He attempted in 1629 and 1630 to go
to Japan; but in the first year the vessel was wrecked, and in the
second the governor forbade the journey. He was sent finally to the
mission at Cuyo, but the troubles with the Moros compelled him to
flee. Reaching Manila, he refused the offer of the secretaryship to the
visitor-general, and the remainder of his life was spent in that city,
his death occurring in the year 1644 or 1651. Gaspar de Santa Monica
was a native of the city of Orihuela, in Valencia, his family name
being Padrós. He took the habit in the convent at Valencia, November 1,
1613. He joined the mission organized by Andrés del Espíritu Santo, and
arrived at Manila in 1622. The following year he was appointed prior
of the convent of Marivelez; and in 1624, when the first provincial
chapter of the order was held in the Philippines, he was elected
prior of the convent of Cuyo, where he suffered many hardships. He
became secretary to Andrés del Espíritu Santo upon the election of
the latter to the provincialate in 1626; but, falling ill, he was
unable to perform the duties of that office and was made prior of
the convent of Calumpán, in 1627. In 1629 he was one of the religious
shipwrecked in the endeavor to reach Japan surreptitiously. He became
definitor of the province in 1632, and in 1638 prior of the convent
at Lináo. On the completion of that office in 1642 it does not appear
that he filled other posts. He died in the city of Manila in 1651.]

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

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