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
After the fearful round of so many calamities, our Lord hastened to
open the treasury of His mercies by bringing to this province a band
of chosen religious in the year 43. Although they were not many,
yet they were all of estimable qualities; and they have greatly
honored this province as well as all the order. The circumstance of
the time of their arrival made that mission all the more precious;
for it was not thought that the province of the king our sovereign,
Felipe Fourth the Great, would fathom our necessity at a time when
the wars with Portugal and Cataluña kept him much embarrassed, and
his royal treasury empty. But God, who moves the hearts of princes,
places in their hearts those works of charity, in order to render
eternal the grandeur of their monarchies. David's zeal and reverence to
God conquered more for him than did the sword; while the sword served
Roboan [i.e., Rehoboam], who had neither zeal nor reverence for God,
rather for embarrassment, and ten kingdoms in ten provinces fell away
from his crown at the first movement.
[Certain pious reflections follow. Continuing, Santa Cruz says:]
That mission was arranged in España by father Fray Francisco
Carrero, procurator for this province. He conducted it to Mexico,
where, reënforced by valiant and suitable men who arrived there,
he committed it to father Fray Joseph de la Madre de Dios; for the
said father procurator could not come here, and hence left them
where they embarked at Acapulco. The mail-packet and letters of
the ship arrived on the ninth of July; and on the twenty-first,
eve of the glorious Magdalena, our patroness, the said mission
entered Manila. The religious included in it were as follows: the
father vicar, Fray Joseph de la Madre de Dios (alias de la Vega),
a native of Rioseco, and son of [the convent of] San Pablo at Burgos;
father Fray Pedro de la Fuente, lecturer on the arts in the province
of España, son of the same convent, fellow of San Gregorio, and native
of the bishopric of Logroño; father Fray Francisco de Molina, son of
[the convent of] Santo Tomas at Madrid, and native of the same city;
father Fray Juan Pabon, son of our convent at Truxillo, and native
of Montanches; father Fray Bernardo Lopez, son of [the convent of]
San Pedro Martir el Real at Toledo, and native of a town near the
said city; father Fray Juan Lopez, native of the town of Martin Muñoz
de las Possadas, son of [the convent of] San Estevan at Salamanca,
who afterward became the most illustrious bishop of Nombre de Jesus
[i.e., Cebú] whence he ascended to the archbishopric of Manila, and
of whom we shall treat in due time; father Fray Domingo del Castillo,
son of [the convent of] San Pablo at Valladolid, and native of the
mountain region of Burgos; father Fray Geronimo de Sotomayor, son of
[the convent at] Mexico, lecturer in morning classes in the college
of Porta-Celi, and native of the said city; father Fray Juan Cuenca,
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