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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

[Chapter iv treats in great part of the life of Pedro de la
Madre de Dios. He was born at Salamanca in 1580, and his family
name was Lopez. He took the habit in the convent at Valladolid,
in 1605. Somewhere between the years 1612-1614 he was sent as
vicar-provincial to the Philippines, with the brief for the separation
of the Recollects from the regular Augustinians, conceded by the
pope. After the expiration of that office in 1615 he spent the time
until 1623 in work among the novices and as prior of the convents
of Manila and Cavite. July 1623 to February 1624, he acted again
as vicar-provincial. In the latter year he was chosen procurator
to Spain, and the representative of the Philippines to the general
chapter of the order to be held in 1627. Sailing from Manila in 1625,
the remainder of his life was spent in Spain in various employments and
in retirement. His death occurred between the years 1649-1652. Section
vi of this chapter treats of the Recollect convent of San Juan
de Bagumbaya (for whose early history given in summary here,
see VOL. XXI). In 1642, the governor Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera
ordered all the buildings in the village of Bagumbaya to be torn down
for fear of the Dutch, among them the convent. Despite the endeavor
of the religious to save their convent, it was demolished and a new
fort begun there. The order had refused the 4,000 pesos offered them
by the governor, saying that their possessions were worth more than
50,000. This action of the governor was made part of the charges in
the residencia, and he was condemned to pay the order 25,000 pesos,
and the ground-plots were restored to them. Thereupon the fort was
demolished, and a new convent and church erected. Section vii details
the placing of the holy image of the Christ of Humility and Patience
(Santo Cristo de Humildad y Paciencia) in the Recollect convent at
Manila in the year 1652.]

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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

[Chapter iv treats in great part of the life of Pedro de la
Madre de Dios. He was born at Salamanca in 1580, and his family
name was Lopez. He took the habit in the convent at Valladolid,
in 1605. Somewhere between the years 1612-1614 he was sent as
vicar-provincial to the Philippines, with the brief for the separation
of the Recollects from the regular Augustinians, conceded by the
pope. After the expiration of that office in 1615 he spent the time
until 1623 in work among the novices and as prior of the convents
of Manila and Cavite. July 1623 to February 1624, he acted again
as vicar-provincial. In the latter year he was chosen procurator
to Spain, and the representative of the Philippines to the general
chapter of the order to be held in 1627. Sailing from Manila in 1625,
the remainder of his life was spent in Spain in various employments and
in retirement. His death occurred between the years 1649-1652. Section
vi of this chapter treats of the Recollect convent of San Juan
de Bagumbaya (for whose early history given in summary here,
see VOL. XXI). In 1642, the governor Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera
ordered all the buildings in the village of Bagumbaya to be torn down
for fear of the Dutch, among them the convent. Despite the endeavor
of the religious to save their convent, it was demolished and a new
fort begun there. The order had refused the 4,000 pesos offered them
by the governor, saying that their possessions were worth more than
50,000. This action of the governor was made part of the charges in
the residencia, and he was condemned to pay the order 25,000 pesos,
and the ground-plots were restored to them. Thereupon the fort was
demolished, and a new convent and church erected. Section vii details
the placing of the holy image of the Christ of Humility and Patience
(Santo Cristo de Humildad y Paciencia) in the Recollect convent at
Manila in the year 1652.]

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

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