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
Our father Fray Alonso Coronel having completed the term of three
years of his government--which was filled with fears and hardships,
because of the unfortunate events that we have just related in the
threats of the pirate Kuesing Pompoán--the time assigned for the
celebration of the chapter in the convent of Manila arrived, namely,
April 25, 1665. The senior father definitor, Fray Luis de Medina,
presided at that chapter, in which our father Fray Alonso Quijano was
elected for the second time, as he was a person of whom this province
had experienced the worthiness of administering the government of
it; for he had ruled so efficiently during the triennium when he was
provincial the first time. As definitors were elected the following
fathers: Fray Tomás de Villanueva, Fray Cosme de Hiz, [121] Fray
Francisco del Moral, [122] and Fray Enrique de Castro. [123] The
visitors of the past triennium were present, fathers Fray José de
Mendoza, [124] and Fray Francisco de Medina de Basco; [125] and as
new visitors were elected the father lecturer Fray Cristobal Marroquí
[126] and Fray Carlos Bautista. [127] They passed very useful acts
for the efficient government of the province, and such that one
recognizes the care and vigilance that were taken in preventing the
slightest neglect in matters pertaining to the regular observance,
and in the care for better administration in the office of parish
priest. In that chapter was renewed once more the urgent request of
the governor for the list of the appointments of prior-ministers. But
it was resolved not to establish such a precedent and they were aided
in that by the fathers of St. Dominic, who also held their chapter on
the same day--when they elected as their provincial father Fray Juan de
los Ángeles, who was worthy of that name because of his many virtues.
The new provincial, seeing the lack of religious from which this
province was suffering, on account of its failure to receive large
missions, which would furnish abundant workers for the maintenance of
so many and remote convents and missions as were in its charge--for,
although diligent efforts had been made to remedy that lack, three
procurators who had been sent to España had died; and the third, father
Fray José Botoño, after having been forced to put back to port twice,
died during the voyage, the third time when he embarked--appointed
for that duty father Fray Isidro Rodríguez, a native of Madrid and
minister of the province of Pampanga, of whom we have given a memorial
in the [relation of the] insurrection of the said province. That
was an excellent appointment, for he made his voyage successfully,
having embarked on the galleon "Nuestra Señora de la Concepción,"
under command of the commander José de Zamora. He brought back the
most numerous mission that had thus far entered these islands.
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