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
Santiago in Galicia; father Fray Tomàs de Leon, son of [the convent of]
Santo Tomàs in Madrid, and brother of father Fray Alonso de Leon above
mentioned; father Fray Fernando de Melgar, son of [the convent of]
San Pedro Martir in Toledo; father Fray Lorenzo del Rosario, son of
[the convent of] Santo Domingo in Guzman de San Lucar; father Fray
Bartolome de Quiroga, son of [the convent of] Santo Domingo in Lugo;
father Fray Victorio de Almoynia, son of [the convent of] Santo
Domingo at Santiago in Galicia; Fray Bernardo Alvarez, dean, son of
[the convent of] San Pablo in Valladolid; Fray Estevan de Rivera,
son of [the convent of] Santa Maria la Real in Trianos; Fray Melchor
Vigil, dean, son of the said convent in Trianos; Fray Lucas de San
Vicente, lay-brother, native of Salamanca, son of the convent of
Santo Domingo in Manila. Those who remained sick in Mexico came the
following year. They were as follows: father Fray Manuel de Guzman,
son of the convent of San Pablo in Sevilla; father Fray Gregorio Ortiz,
son of the Preachers in Zaragoza; Fray Domingo de Flores, dean, son
of the convent of Santo Domingo in Zamora; Fray Andres de los Angeles,
lay-brother, son of [the convent of] Santo Domingo in Oajaca. That fine
mission arrived very opportunely, composed of religious who possessed
so excellent abilities; they were young, and well fitted to advance
the credit of this holy province. After the joyful congratulations
which welcomed them, they were assigned by the arrangements of the
prelate, then the father commissary, Fray Francisco de Paula, to the
study of a language. They have gone forth as excellent ministers and
missionaries, both those who are living and some who have already died.
[Chinese affairs again engross our author for the remainder of this
chapter, as well as for the thirteenth.]
CHAPTER XIV
Junta of the year 1659; father Fray Juan Bautista de Morales goes
to take part in it; and prior events in Zubinkeu.
The intermediary junta was held in 1659 in our convent of Santo
Domingo in Manila. Among other matters that were decided there, we
must not pass in silence the response made to the fathers of China to
a question or memorial presented by them. [This memorial, in view of
the disturbed state of China and the slender support that was received
by the missionaries in China from the province in the Philippines,
asks that whenever cultivated lands are given them as an alms they
may accept them. The memorial or petition was not allowed, for the bad
effects that might ensue from it; as the Chinese might misconstrue it
and imagine that the missionaries go to their country for the sake of
the lands alone, and not for the welfare of souls--the decision giving
great satisfaction to Juan Bautista de Morales, vicar-provincial of
China. The remainder of the chapter relates wholly to Chinese matters.]
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