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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

greatest distinction for these lands, was added the relief of money,
which was larger than usual, as well as that of individual persons....

[This chapter records the death (in 1653) in the Manila convent
of father Fray Juan del Villar, a native of Luzena, and son of the
convent of San Pablo el Real in Cordova. He went to the Philippines
in 1635, and applied himself to the study of Chinese and taught in
the college of Santo Tomás.]

Among other ordinances passed by that chapter, as they were necessary,
was one that declared that no one could be employed in the office
of lecturer in our college of Santo Thomas unless he first learned
some one language native to that country--not because there is any
logic in it, which must precede the sciences, but, since the first
foundation of this province is that of the preaching and missions,
all must know a language. He who does not know one, even if he be
a very learned theologian, does not render all the service that
he can; and he does not have the good fortune to be sent by his
prelates or to have a change of climate, which is perhaps important
to his health. On arriving from España it is the custom for all to
be divided, according to the arrangements made by the prelate, in
the study of the various languages. With their pious desire and the
master that is given them, he who can not learn enough in one year
in order to make himself understood as a preacher and confessor in a
language must be very dull. With such sound beginnings they are not
embarrassed afterward in other occupations, since, when a place in the
ministry becomes suitable, the greatest difficulty is found to have
been conquered. Of greatest use on the sea is he who knows the duties
of sailor and artilleryman; and as time goes on it becomes a matter
of disconsolation for a religious to find himself without a language,
and at an age when it is impossible to learn it, while it is a matter
that might have been overcome in a brief time at the beginning.

[Chapters ii-iv treat of Chinese affairs and missions.]





CHAPTER V

    Of the intermediary junta, and of a new mission sent to the
    kingdom of China

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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

greatest distinction for these lands, was added the relief of money,
which was larger than usual, as well as that of individual persons....

[This chapter records the death (in 1653) in the Manila convent
of father Fray Juan del Villar, a native of Luzena, and son of the
convent of San Pablo el Real in Cordova. He went to the Philippines
in 1635, and applied himself to the study of Chinese and taught in
the college of Santo Tomás.]

Among other ordinances passed by that chapter, as they were necessary,
was one that declared that no one could be employed in the office
of lecturer in our college of Santo Thomas unless he first learned
some one language native to that country--not because there is any
logic in it, which must precede the sciences, but, since the first
foundation of this province is that of the preaching and missions,
all must know a language. He who does not know one, even if he be
a very learned theologian, does not render all the service that
he can; and he does not have the good fortune to be sent by his
prelates or to have a change of climate, which is perhaps important
to his health. On arriving from España it is the custom for all to
be divided, according to the arrangements made by the prelate, in
the study of the various languages. With their pious desire and the
master that is given them, he who can not learn enough in one year
in order to make himself understood as a preacher and confessor in a
language must be very dull. With such sound beginnings they are not
embarrassed afterward in other occupations, since, when a place in the
ministry becomes suitable, the greatest difficulty is found to have
been conquered. Of greatest use on the sea is he who knows the duties
of sailor and artilleryman; and as time goes on it becomes a matter
of disconsolation for a religious to find himself without a language,
and at an age when it is impossible to learn it, while it is a matter
that might have been overcome in a brief time at the beginning.

[Chapters ii-iv treat of Chinese affairs and missions.]





CHAPTER V

    Of the intermediary junta, and of a new mission sent to the
    kingdom of China

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

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