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
[Chapter li continues the mention of certain deceased
religious. Francisco de la Trinidad died as bishop of Santa Marta,
in the Indias, in 1663. In 1651 he had been sent as procurator from
the Philippines to Spain and Rome, being at that time prior of the
Manila convent; and he served as definitor for his province at Rome
in 1656. He was a native of Vizcaya, and had taken the habit in the
Philippines. Martin Real de la Cruz died in the bishopric of Cagayan
in 1651. He was a son of the convent of Carboneras in the province
of España, and became a fellow in the college at Valladolid. After
arriving at the Philippines he was sent to the bishopric of Nueva
Segovia, where he learned the language perfectly; and he wrote many
sermons and discourses, which were preserved in manuscript and copied
for the use of the order. He became rector of the college of Santo
Tomás at Manila, and at the same time first rector and chancellor of
the university erected in that college in 1648. On the completion of
that office he returned to his missions in Cagayan, and died in the
remote missions of the Babuyanes Islands. In the same bishopric died
also during that period Lucas Garcia, at the age of seventy-six. He had
a perfect command of the language, and was a sympathetic and arduous
missionary worker. He acted more than once as a vicar-provincial,
and went to the island of Hermosa, where he labored among the natives
and Spanish soldiers. After serving as rector of the college of
Santo Tomás he returned to his missions in Cagayan, where death met
him. The lay-brother Francisco de San Agustin died in the village
of Lalo, in the same province, a helpful and humble worker. In the
convent of San Jacinto, outside the walls of the City of Mexico,
died in the year 1651 Sebastian de Oquendo, a native of Oviedo in
Castilla. He had been minister to the Chinese of the Parián, and had
lectured in the arts and theology in the college of Santo Tomás. The
Manila convent of the order was served by him in the office of prior;
and he also preached in that city with great success, leaving many
writings in manuscript on scholastic theology, which were used long
afterward. At death he was buried in the convent of San Jacinto, where
he was serving as prior. His body was found uncorrupted, in 1658,
by some Dominican missionaries en route to the Philippines.]
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