The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 37, 1669-1676: 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 37, 1669-1676: 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 came also the most illustrious master, Don Fray Rodrigo de
Cárdenas of the Order of Preachers, a native of Lima, preacher to his
Majesty, and consecrated bishop of Nueva Segovia. As it has been his
lot to be celebrated by the most skilful pen of the reverend father
master Fray Baltasar de Santa Cruz in the second part of the History of
the province of Santo Rosario, he does not need the rude tracings of
my pen. There came, elected and appointed as bishop of Cebú, the dean
of Manila, Doctor Don Juan de Velas; and as bishop of Nueva Cáceres
or Camarines, the very reverend father Fray Antonio de San Gregorio,
[83] lecturer and calificador and commissary of the Holy Office. He
was also provincial of that province of San Gregorio of the Order of
St. Francis, because of the death of Don Fray Antonio de Zaldivar, a
religious of our father St. Augustine, of the province of Méjico--who
died without having been consecrated, in the year 1649, after he had
governed that church for little more than one year, his death causing
great sorrow in all quarters because of his great virtues and learning.
As auditor came Licentiate Don Salvador Gomez de Espinosa, an eminent
jurisconsult; and, to act as his Majesty's fiscal, Don Juan de Bolivar
y Cruz, father of Doctor Don Pedro de Bolivar y Mena who was auditor
and came to an unfortunate end in our time; for his associates made
him an accomplice in the exile of the archbishop Don Fray Felipe Pardo
of the Order of St. Dominic. Two missions came in that galleon, one of
our Recollect religious, and the other of the Society of Jesus. Some
very notable people came, so many that those who came in that galleon
amounted to six hundred persons. Their journey was so propitious that
only three persons died on the voyage.
The devil was very angry at the great war that he would have to wage
because of the holy prelates and religious who came on that galleon
"San Francisco Javier." Accordingly, what he could not do on the high
sea he managed to do from the Embocadero to Manila. For the winds
rebelled against the ship at the island of Mindoro, and so frightful
a tempest arose that the galleon was all but lost, and in danger
of going to pieces on some high reefs about that island. They cast
anchor, and the archbishop conjured the storm, which immediately
calmed itself. That galleon suffered three similar storms among
the islands before they reached the bay of Manila and cast anchor
at Cavite, July 23--although the governor and archbishop landed the
day before that in a falúa which was sent to the middle of the bay
by the castellan of Cavite, the commander Lorenzo Orella y Ugalde,
so often mentioned in this history.
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