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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

Just at present we all enjoy the ministry
of a perfect procurator of Filipinas in our venerable bishop Don
Fray Juan de Polanco, who must have been a model of procurators;
for by his example and virtue alone, he found himself freed from
all the difficulties that accompany that honorable office. In their
very beginnings he found them solved and conquered; and he made
the very judges of his causes, and even those who were opposed to
him, his attorneys. This is not imagination but the pure truth;
and there are many witnesses still living now in the holy city
of Roma (where he went as definitor in 1668), and in the royal
court of Madrid--where he was favored by princes, and esteemed
and respected as an apostolic and holy man in their councils and
tribunals; where he was listened to as a learned orator of this
province; and where his causes were heard with the notable grace
that God gave him wherever he went, and with the highest honor
in both the said courts. The time will come for recounting his
life and death, and then a longer account will be given of his
virtues. Suffice it to say for the present that he collected two
famous missions for this holy province, which he accompanied to
Mexico (which is the rough place in the ascent of the hill), and
returned for the third time [to España] for more soldiers--[whom
he would have brought] had not the giant footsteps of envious
death intercepted him in Sevilla. He entrusted the first mission
to one of its religious, namely, father Fray Baltasar de Santa
Cruz. They reached Manila safely in August, 1666, and their names
in order of age are as follows: father Fray Juan de Velasco, son of
[the convent of] San Pedro Martir el Real in Toledo; father Fray
Baltasar de Santa Cruz, son of [the convent of] Santa Cruz el Real
in Granada, and master of students, who was then in the convent
of San Lucar; father Fray Joseph de Isussi, son of the convent of
San Pablo in Burgos and fellow of [the convent of] San Gregorio
in Valladolid; father Fray Diego Nuñez, son of [the convent of]
San Estevan in Salamanca; father Fray Christoval de Montenegro, son
of the convent and college of Nuestro Señora del Rosario in Almagro,
fellow of Santo Thomas in Sevilla, and teacher of logic there; father
Fray Arcadio del Rosario, son of [the convent of] San Pablo in Sevilla,
and lecturer in logic there, former fellow of Santo Thomas of Alcalà
de Henares (this father remained in Mexico because of illness, and
came the following year); father Fray Christoval Pedroche, son of the
convent of San Pedro Martir el Real in Toledo; father Fray Juan Romero,
son of the convent of San Pablo in Sevilla and fellow of San Gregorio
in Valladolid; father Fray Juan de la Cueva, son of [the convent of]
Santa Cruz in Granada; father Fray Pedro de Alcalà, son of the same
convent in Granada; father Fray Manuel de Mercadillo, son of [the
convent of] San Estevan in Salamanca; father Fray Alonso Blasco, son

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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

Just at present we all enjoy the ministry
of a perfect procurator of Filipinas in our venerable bishop Don
Fray Juan de Polanco, who must have been a model of procurators;
for by his example and virtue alone, he found himself freed from
all the difficulties that accompany that honorable office. In their
very beginnings he found them solved and conquered; and he made
the very judges of his causes, and even those who were opposed to
him, his attorneys. This is not imagination but the pure truth;
and there are many witnesses still living now in the holy city
of Roma (where he went as definitor in 1668), and in the royal
court of Madrid--where he was favored by princes, and esteemed
and respected as an apostolic and holy man in their councils and
tribunals; where he was listened to as a learned orator of this
province; and where his causes were heard with the notable grace
that God gave him wherever he went, and with the highest honor
in both the said courts. The time will come for recounting his
life and death, and then a longer account will be given of his
virtues. Suffice it to say for the present that he collected two
famous missions for this holy province, which he accompanied to
Mexico (which is the rough place in the ascent of the hill), and
returned for the third time [to España] for more soldiers--[whom
he would have brought] had not the giant footsteps of envious
death intercepted him in Sevilla. He entrusted the first mission
to one of its religious, namely, father Fray Baltasar de Santa
Cruz. They reached Manila safely in August, 1666, and their names
in order of age are as follows: father Fray Juan de Velasco, son of
[the convent of] San Pedro Martir el Real in Toledo; father Fray
Baltasar de Santa Cruz, son of [the convent of] Santa Cruz el Real
in Granada, and master of students, who was then in the convent
of San Lucar; father Fray Joseph de Isussi, son of the convent of
San Pablo in Burgos and fellow of [the convent of] San Gregorio
in Valladolid; father Fray Diego Nuñez, son of [the convent of]
San Estevan in Salamanca; father Fray Christoval de Montenegro, son
of the convent and college of Nuestro Señora del Rosario in Almagro,
fellow of Santo Thomas in Sevilla, and teacher of logic there; father
Fray Arcadio del Rosario, son of [the convent of] San Pablo in Sevilla,
and lecturer in logic there, former fellow of Santo Thomas of Alcalà
de Henares (this father remained in Mexico because of illness, and
came the following year); father Fray Christoval Pedroche, son of the
convent of San Pedro Martir el Real in Toledo; father Fray Juan Romero,
son of the convent of San Pablo in Sevilla and fellow of San Gregorio
in Valladolid; father Fray Juan de la Cueva, son of [the convent of]
Santa Cruz in Granada; father Fray Pedro de Alcalà, son of the same
convent in Granada; father Fray Manuel de Mercadillo, son of [the
convent of] San Estevan in Salamanca; father Fray Alonso Blasco, son

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