The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 38, 1674-1683: 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 38, 1674-1683: 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
On the day of the Expectation of our Lady, which they reckon the
eighteenth of December, father Fray Bernardino Márquez, while in his
church at Bauang ... [was warned of the approach of the Zambals]. He
found at the door of the church two Indian chiefs of that village,
one of whom was named Don Juan Canangán; they told him not to be
afraid, as they were there determined to defend the father from the
fury of the Zambals, who were already near, even if it cost them their
lives.... While he was saying mass, the Zambals arrived; their leader
or captain was he who had been titled "Conde," a native of the village
of Agoo and married in Binalatongan, named Don Pedro Gumapos, who
had been an associate of Don Andrés Malóng in that insurrection. The
Zambals waited very quietly for the father to finish saying mass;
and when he had returned thanks and begun to say the prayers, a
message came to him from Don Pedro Gumapos asking permission to
kiss his hand. Father Fray Bernardino gave it, and Gumapos came
up accompanied by Zambals and Negritos, armed with balazaos [87]
and catanas. He kissed father Fray Bernardino's hand, and told him
absurd things about his rebellion against the Spaniards, and at the
same time he asked permission for his soldiers to search the convent,
to see if any Spaniard were concealed there. Father Fray Bernardino,
certain that no one was there, told him that he might do as he pleased;
Gumapos ordered his companions to make the search, and if they met any
Spaniard to kill him. The Zambals carried out this order of Gumapos,
and in the course of the search looted whatever there was in the
convent. While this was being done, Gumapos remained talking with
father Fray Bernardino Márquez; and, when he asked where was father
Fray Luís de la Fuente, father Fray Bernardino answered that he had
gone up to Bagnotan to make his confession. Gumapos replied to this
that he had come to kill Fray Luís, unless father Fray Bernardino
would ransom him for 300 pesos. To this audacious proposition the
father answered that he had not so much money, and that Gumapos should
therefore take his life, or carry him away as a slave, and let father
Fray Luís go. Gumapos replied to this that no injury of any kind would
be done to the father, for he himself would rather suffer such harm in
his own person; but this was no virtue of Gumapos, but [the result of]
an order given to him by his little king Don Andrés Maléng, who was
very fond of father Fray Bernardino Márquez.
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