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
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Then the king sent him his panditas, or learned doctors,
in order to convince him; but they found that their efforts were
in vain. The king was angered at this constancy, and threatened
to take Libot's property from him, make his daughter a slave, and
fling his dead body into the open field. All this Libot scorned,
and charged his daughter to bury him as a Christian, without using
the ceremonies of the Moors [i.e., Mahometans] in their funerals,
or even mingling these [with Christian rites]; and so he died, in
a very Christian frame of mind. The prince took possession of all
Libot's property, and ordered that his daughter Oley be imprisoned;
but she, availing herself of her many slaves, forced her way out of
her prison, and risked going as a fugitive to Samboangan. The king,
furious, undertook to avenge this affront on the corpse of her father,
and commanded that it be disinterred; but through Supreme Providence
they were never able to find it, although they attempted to, with the
closest search, and they believed that his daughter had carried the
body with her. Oley arrived at Samboangan safely, and soon fell ill,
not without suspicion of some deadly poison. The fathers went to her,
to see if they could convert her to the faith of Jesus Christ, but
their persuasions were vain. In compassion, the governor and other
persons opposed such obstinacy, with both promises and threats; but
they could not make her change her opinion in the least. The victory
was won by the [native] master-of-camp, Don Pedro Cabilin, a very
influential and respected man, who pledged himself to persuade Oley
to become a Christian. She listened to him attentively on account of
his nobility, and because he was of her own kinsfolk and blood. With
these recommendations, and his effectual arguments, that obstinacy
was conquered, and she received holy baptism, to the universal joy
of the entire garrison. Her godmother was the wife of the governor,
Doña Cathalina Henriquez, and the newly-baptized convert took that
lady's name. Oley had an excellent intellect, and put it to good use in
her last moments, continually invoking God up to her last breath. The
Spaniards gave her a very solemn burial. The chiefs carried her body on
their shoulders up to the door of the church, where the governor and
the officers of the garrison took it, carrying it in the same manner
to the burial-place, and afterward to the tomb--this magnificent
display causing edification to all.
[See Santa Theresa's account (in VOL. XXXVI) of one of the outer
waves of this insurrection, that among the Manobos of Mindanao.]
In Pampanga and Pangasinan; 1660-61
[The following account of this revolt is taken (partly in synopsis)
from Diaz's Conquistas, pp. 568-590. These events are also related
in Santa Cruz's Hist. Sant. Rosario, pp. 331-341; Murillo Velarde's
Hist. de Philipinas, fol. 253b-256; Concepción's Hist. de Philipinas,
vii, pp. 9-35; and Ferrando's Hist. de los PP. Dominicos, iii,
pp. 67-74.]
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