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
Father Fray José de la Cruz, minister of the province of Pampanga,
where he rendered much service to the order, and left a lively
remembrance of his zeal in the churches of Candaba, Betis, and México,
which he built from the foundations with great beauty and strength. He
died in the year 1695.
Father Fray Francisco Jordán, an excellent theologue, who was afterward
given the title of lecturer. He was a successful minister to the
Ilocans, and a good preacher. He died in the year 1666.
The father lecturer Fray Lorenzo de Cisneros, who had taken the habit
after he had been a secular priest for many years. He was an able
theologue, and had been one of the household of Don Juan de Palafox,
whom he had served considerably in his litigations with the regulars of
Nueva España. That religious was minister to a Christian village some
time in Ilocos; but afterward his mind failed him, and he lived so for
many years, suffering the troubles and hardships that so troublesome
an infirmity causes. I knew him for many years, and he was never
furious, but very mild and gentle. Consequently, he was always left
unshackled, and gave no other sign of the infirmity from which he was
suffering than his outbursts of greatest nonsense. He was ever very
affable and courteous. A few days before his death, he recovered his
mental faculties; and, after having received all the holy sacraments,
he died in great calm in 1662, at an age of more than seventy.
Father Fray Pedro de la Plaza, fifty-three years old, an excellent
theologue, who had also been a secular priest for many years, and
only had three years of profession. He died in 1665 in the convent
of Manila.
The brother chorister, Fray Antonio de Quesada, twenty-two years old,
a student in the arts. He seems to have been a minister in the province
of Pampanga, and very skilful in that language. He died in 1661.
Brother Fray José de Sotomayor, who was a minister in the province
of Ilocos, and died in the year 1665.
Brother Fray Bartolomé de la Torre, twenty-two years old, who had
completed his studies. Afterward he became lecturer in arts in the
convent of Manila, and was sent to the province of Bisayas, where he
was an able minister, definitor, and vicar-provincial. He died in 1684.
Brother Fray Marcos Zapata, a theological student, twenty-two years
old and five in the habit; he was a minister in the province of Ilocos,
where he died in 1673.
Brother Fray Francisco Flores, of the same age and [length of time in
the] habit, was minister in the province of Tagalos, and died in 1675.
Brother Fray José de Mendoza, twenty years of age, was minister in
the province of Ilocos, and a fine preacher in that language. He died
in the convent of Manila in 1678.
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