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
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[135] Estéban Marín was a native of the City of Mexico, where he
professed. He went to the Philippines in 1584, and was sent to the
Igorots and Zambals, where he established the villages of Bolinao
and Masinloc and ministered in those of Batác, Laoag, Tagudin, and
Bantay. He was killed by the Igorots in November, 1601, having been
sent thither with the punitive expedition (under command of Matheo
de Aranda) by Governor Francisco Tello, while endeavoring to pacify
the insurgents by peaceful measures. He left a manuscript grammar
and dictionary of the Igorot language, a grammar of the Zambal and
Spanish, and several sermons in Zambal. See Pérez's Catálogo, p. 32.
[136] Referring to the Conquistas de las Islas Philipinas (Madrid,
1698) of Gaspar de San Agustin--of which history Diaz's is a
continuation.
[137] Lorenzo Herrera was a native of Mexico, and professed in Manila,
October 15, 1643. He worked in the villages of Agoó (1656), Bocarra
(1657, 1668), Purao (1659), and Narvacán (1665). He performed many
notable deeds on the expedition outlined in the text. Death met him
in 1671. See Pérez's Catálogo, pp. 198, 199.
[138] Luis de la Fuente was a Mexican, and professed in the Manila
convent, January 25, 1655. He ministered in the Ilocan villages of Agoó
(1659), Purao (1662), Sinait (1663, 1677), Dingras (1666), Bocarra
(1669), and Candón (1675). He was captured in the uprising of the
Pangasináns and Zambals in 1660, but was freed. His death occurred
in 1680. See Pérez's Catálogo, p. 201.
[139] Gabriel Alvarez was born in Manila, and professed there September
27, 1663. He was minister in the village of Sinait in 1665, when
ordered to accompany the expedition under Pedro Durán de Monforte,
returning thither in 1609 and dying in 1671. See Pérez's Catálogo,
p. 204.
[140] Since 1880 permanent missions of the Augustinians have been
established in Cayang and other neighboring tribes.--Tirso Lopez,
O.S.A.
[141] Lauan (Anisoptera thurifera: Blume) of the family of
Dipterocarpaceae, used for shipbuilding and house construction.
[142] Andrés Salazar ministered in Gapán (1647), Aráyat (1648), Pórac
(1650), Minalin (1653), Apálit (1656), Betis (1657), Caodaba (1662),
Macabebe (1665), Bacolór (1668), and Hagonoy (1674). He was elected
definitor in 1668. During the insurrection of 1660 in Panipanga, he
aided in the pacification of the insurgents. He died in the Manila
convent in 1674. See Perez's Catálogo, pp. 121, 122.
[143] Pedro de Mesa was born in Valverde in the province of Burgos
and took the habit in Valladolid in 1635. He labored in Carcar (1651,
1659), Guimbál (1654), Tigbauan (1656), Jaro (1663), Panay (1665-71),
Dumarao (1664), Lipa (1669), and Malate (1680, 1689). He was subprior
of the convent of Manila in 1662, prior of the same convent (1668),
visitor and vicar-provincial, and twice definitor (1668, 1678);
and died in the Manila convent, in 1692. See Perez's Catálogo, p. 118.
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