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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

History

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

Nor was the least cause of their reduction the diligent efforts
of the religious who were ministers in these provinces, with their
notable assiduity in preaching to the natives and exhorting them,
with the arguments that we have already stated; and in this task they
suffered the greatest hardships and dangers to life. In the province
of Ilocos, fathers Fray Bernardino Márquez, Fray Gonzalo de la Palma,
Fray Luís de la Fuente, and Fray Juan de Isla. In Pampanga, the
following fathers were very prominent in the reduction: in Bacolor,
Fray Francisco de Medina Basco; in Guagua, Fray Luís de la Vega; in
Lubao, Fray José Botoño; in Mexico, Fray José Cornejo; in Candaba,
Fray Pedro de Eguiluz; in Apalit, Fray José de Tapia; in Macabebe,
Fray Enrique de Castro; but, more than all, Fray José Duque and Fray
Isidro Rodríguez, whose authority among the natives could overcome
the greatest difficulties. Information to this effect was given to the
royal and supreme Council of the Indias by Don Sabiniano Manrique de
Lara himself, in Madrid, after his return from his government in the
year 1667--when father Fray Isidro Rodríguez was at the same court as
procurator for this province, soliciting the numerous mission which
he conducted hither, and in which I came, the least of its members.

[Notable among the losses and injuries caused by the Zambal raid
was the death of the bishop of Nueva Segovia, Don Fray Rodrigo de
Cárdenas, of whom Diaz gives a biographical sketch. He died at Manila,
early in May, 1661.]


In Otón (Panay); 1663

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History

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

Nor was the least cause of their reduction the diligent efforts
of the religious who were ministers in these provinces, with their
notable assiduity in preaching to the natives and exhorting them,
with the arguments that we have already stated; and in this task they
suffered the greatest hardships and dangers to life. In the province
of Ilocos, fathers Fray Bernardino Márquez, Fray Gonzalo de la Palma,
Fray Luís de la Fuente, and Fray Juan de Isla. In Pampanga, the
following fathers were very prominent in the reduction: in Bacolor,
Fray Francisco de Medina Basco; in Guagua, Fray Luís de la Vega; in
Lubao, Fray José Botoño; in Mexico, Fray José Cornejo; in Candaba,
Fray Pedro de Eguiluz; in Apalit, Fray José de Tapia; in Macabebe,
Fray Enrique de Castro; but, more than all, Fray José Duque and Fray
Isidro Rodríguez, whose authority among the natives could overcome
the greatest difficulties. Information to this effect was given to the
royal and supreme Council of the Indias by Don Sabiniano Manrique de
Lara himself, in Madrid, after his return from his government in the
year 1667--when father Fray Isidro Rodríguez was at the same court as
procurator for this province, soliciting the numerous mission which
he conducted hither, and in which I came, the least of its members.

[Notable among the losses and injuries caused by the Zambal raid
was the death of the bishop of Nueva Segovia, Don Fray Rodrigo de
Cárdenas, of whom Diaz gives a biographical sketch. He died at Manila,
early in May, 1661.]


In Otón (Panay); 1663

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

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