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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

Don Diego de Salcedo sustained that so grievous blow with so great
steadfastness that he caused admiration in all people; for he was
never heard to assign another reason for his imprisonment than that it
was a present which God was sending him for his many sins. For it is
considered certain that if he had cried out, when he was arrested,
to the halberdiers of his guard, and if they had called upon the
soldiers of the guardroom, a great disturbance would have happened,
however much the master-of-camp tried to restrain them. I am witness of
that, for I went often by order of the father commissary and prior to
amuse him when he was sick. I admired his great courage and prudence,
as well as his strong mind; and it seemed as if he had no resentment
that could give him anxiety. One may believe that so great conformity
to His most holy will was gained by the aid of God. That which I always
heard to be a fact must have been true, namely, that that gentleman
had great love and special veneration for the most venerable father
Diego de San Víctores, [157] of the holy Society of Jesus, whom the
governor aided considerably by coöperation [with him] in his entrance
into the Marianas Islands. It is said that he requested the said
venerable father to ask God to give him in this world his purgatory
for his sins. The venerable father replied that he should think well
what he was asking, for the Lord's aid is necessary when He bears down
His hand, in order that one may not refuse to endure His paternal
correction. The father told him that time after time, but Don Diego
de Salcedo always persevered in asking the same thing. The venerable
father must have obtained that heroic petition from God; for when he
bade farewell to him on going to the mission of the Marianas Islands,
it appears that he gave Don Diego de Salcedo to understand that the
Lord had granted his petition. Therefore, that very submissive spirit
and the prayers of the venerable father Diego Luís de San Vítores,one
can believe, were the cause of his great patience and resignation.

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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

Don Diego de Salcedo sustained that so grievous blow with so great
steadfastness that he caused admiration in all people; for he was
never heard to assign another reason for his imprisonment than that it
was a present which God was sending him for his many sins. For it is
considered certain that if he had cried out, when he was arrested,
to the halberdiers of his guard, and if they had called upon the
soldiers of the guardroom, a great disturbance would have happened,
however much the master-of-camp tried to restrain them. I am witness of
that, for I went often by order of the father commissary and prior to
amuse him when he was sick. I admired his great courage and prudence,
as well as his strong mind; and it seemed as if he had no resentment
that could give him anxiety. One may believe that so great conformity
to His most holy will was gained by the aid of God. That which I always
heard to be a fact must have been true, namely, that that gentleman
had great love and special veneration for the most venerable father
Diego de San Víctores, [157] of the holy Society of Jesus, whom the
governor aided considerably by coöperation [with him] in his entrance
into the Marianas Islands. It is said that he requested the said
venerable father to ask God to give him in this world his purgatory
for his sins. The venerable father replied that he should think well
what he was asking, for the Lord's aid is necessary when He bears down
His hand, in order that one may not refuse to endure His paternal
correction. The father told him that time after time, but Don Diego
de Salcedo always persevered in asking the same thing. The venerable
father must have obtained that heroic petition from God; for when he
bade farewell to him on going to the mission of the Marianas Islands,
it appears that he gave Don Diego de Salcedo to understand that the
Lord had granted his petition. Therefore, that very submissive spirit
and the prayers of the venerable father Diego Luís de San Vítores,one
can believe, were the cause of his great patience and resignation.

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

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