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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

History

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

On June 17, 1665, the fortunate galleon "San José" arrived at the
port of Cavite, with the most illustrious bishop of Cebú, already
consecrated, the master Don Fray Juan López, of the Order of Preachers,
native of Martín-Muñoz de las Pasadas. He was a prelate who gave
great consolation to the Christian people of these islands--both
in the bishopric of Cebú, where he remained for seven years; and in
Manila, where he died archbishop-elect in the year 1674, after having
suffered many cares. He was a very learned and affable prelate, and
was accordingly greatly beloved by all. In the same galleon came
also the auditor Licentiate Don Juan de Peña Bonifáz, a native of
Segovia, of whom there will be much to say in due time, because of
his beginning to govern the military department in the year 1668,
which was the origin of great disturbances.

Near the boundaries of the province of Ilocos, in the mountains of Cape
Engaño, near the province of Cagayán, belonging to the mission of the
convent of Bacarra, the conversion of the natives of the villages of
Aclán and Vera (now Bangbanglo) was commenced that year by the ardent
zeal and diligence of father Fray Benito de Mena, a native of Manila
and son of our Manila convent San Pablo; he was a religious of great
virtue, and one very fluent in the tongues of Ilocos and Cagayán. Those
villages are more than twenty leguas distant from the central town
Bacarra; and their people are a barbarous and spirited nation, and for
that reason are feared by the Indians round about. They are known by
the name of Payaos. [128] That nation had not received the light of
the holy gospel, because of the ruggedness of their mountains. They
were living in the darkness of their blind paganism, protected by the
inaccessibility of those lofty mountains, and exempt from the yoke
of subjection--the only means by which one is able to introduce the
evangelical preaching among barbarous nations. For since they are the
last nations whom the Celestial Paterfamilias invites to the banquet
of glory, which so many noble and civilized nations have despised,
in them is verified the command to make them enter by means of force:
Compelle intrare, ut impleatur domus mea. [129]...

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History

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

On June 17, 1665, the fortunate galleon "San José" arrived at the
port of Cavite, with the most illustrious bishop of Cebú, already
consecrated, the master Don Fray Juan López, of the Order of Preachers,
native of Martín-Muñoz de las Pasadas. He was a prelate who gave
great consolation to the Christian people of these islands--both
in the bishopric of Cebú, where he remained for seven years; and in
Manila, where he died archbishop-elect in the year 1674, after having
suffered many cares. He was a very learned and affable prelate, and
was accordingly greatly beloved by all. In the same galleon came
also the auditor Licentiate Don Juan de Peña Bonifáz, a native of
Segovia, of whom there will be much to say in due time, because of
his beginning to govern the military department in the year 1668,
which was the origin of great disturbances.

Near the boundaries of the province of Ilocos, in the mountains of Cape
Engaño, near the province of Cagayán, belonging to the mission of the
convent of Bacarra, the conversion of the natives of the villages of
Aclán and Vera (now Bangbanglo) was commenced that year by the ardent
zeal and diligence of father Fray Benito de Mena, a native of Manila
and son of our Manila convent San Pablo; he was a religious of great
virtue, and one very fluent in the tongues of Ilocos and Cagayán. Those
villages are more than twenty leguas distant from the central town
Bacarra; and their people are a barbarous and spirited nation, and for
that reason are feared by the Indians round about. They are known by
the name of Payaos. [128] That nation had not received the light of
the holy gospel, because of the ruggedness of their mountains. They
were living in the darkness of their blind paganism, protected by the
inaccessibility of those lofty mountains, and exempt from the yoke
of subjection--the only means by which one is able to introduce the
evangelical preaching among barbarous nations. For since they are the
last nations whom the Celestial Paterfamilias invites to the banquet
of glory, which so many noble and civilized nations have despised,
in them is verified the command to make them enter by means of force:
Compelle intrare, ut impleatur domus mea. [129]...

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

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