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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

were changed into sadness twice over, and all the preparation became
gloom. The church of Manila was widowed for eight years more, until the
year 1653, when Archbishop Don Miguel de Poblete entered. They buried
Archbishop Don Fernando Montero in the cathedral, above the steps of
the high altar, at the side of Archbishop Don Fray Miguel de Benavides.

A band of fourteen religious arrived at this province that year. They
had been conducted by the father lecturer, Fray Pedro de Quesada,
who died in Méjico. They entered Manila, and were received as sons
of this province on August 7, 1645.

Father Fray Luis de Amezquita, [59] a native of Alba de Tormes--a son
of the convent of San Felipe in Madrid, where he received the habit
of our holy order in the year 1641--came also on that occasion. He
was a religious of great virtue, and a man of the first magnitude;
and one could write many chapters of his marvelous life, his austere
penitence, his continual prayer, and his extraordinary death. I feel
great sorrow that the sequence of time cannot be anticipated so that
somewhat of the great favors that God gave to that grand servant of
His during this life can be published. During his life he was the
wonder of all who had known him in the years of his youth, when he
was more given to the pastimes of the world and the vigor of youth,
before God called him to the austerity and extraordinary mode of life
which he observed for ten years constantly until his death. That
event was hastened by the austere penance which he continued until
it came. God took him to himself in the forty-sixth year of his age,
June 26, 1667, he himself having pointed out beforehand the day and
hour of his happy transition.

[The balance of this chapter and the following one deal with the
disastrous earthquake of 1645, and earthquakes in general. Chapters
iv, v, and vi treat of the troubles with the Dutch. These matters
are sufficiently covered in VOL. XXXI (q.v.).]





CHAPTER VII

    Of the provincialate of our father, Fray Diego de Ordás; and of
    the second coming of the Dutch, and the ruin that they caused
    in Abucay.

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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

were changed into sadness twice over, and all the preparation became
gloom. The church of Manila was widowed for eight years more, until the
year 1653, when Archbishop Don Miguel de Poblete entered. They buried
Archbishop Don Fernando Montero in the cathedral, above the steps of
the high altar, at the side of Archbishop Don Fray Miguel de Benavides.

A band of fourteen religious arrived at this province that year. They
had been conducted by the father lecturer, Fray Pedro de Quesada,
who died in Méjico. They entered Manila, and were received as sons
of this province on August 7, 1645.

Father Fray Luis de Amezquita, [59] a native of Alba de Tormes--a son
of the convent of San Felipe in Madrid, where he received the habit
of our holy order in the year 1641--came also on that occasion. He
was a religious of great virtue, and a man of the first magnitude;
and one could write many chapters of his marvelous life, his austere
penitence, his continual prayer, and his extraordinary death. I feel
great sorrow that the sequence of time cannot be anticipated so that
somewhat of the great favors that God gave to that grand servant of
His during this life can be published. During his life he was the
wonder of all who had known him in the years of his youth, when he
was more given to the pastimes of the world and the vigor of youth,
before God called him to the austerity and extraordinary mode of life
which he observed for ten years constantly until his death. That
event was hastened by the austere penance which he continued until
it came. God took him to himself in the forty-sixth year of his age,
June 26, 1667, he himself having pointed out beforehand the day and
hour of his happy transition.

[The balance of this chapter and the following one deal with the
disastrous earthquake of 1645, and earthquakes in general. Chapters
iv, v, and vi treat of the troubles with the Dutch. These matters
are sufficiently covered in VOL. XXXI (q.v.).]





CHAPTER VII

    Of the provincialate of our father, Fray Diego de Ordás; and of
    the second coming of the Dutch, and the ruin that they caused
    in Abucay.

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

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