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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 41 of 55, 1691-1700: 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 41 of 55, 1691-1700: 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

788. Let us now speak of its spiritual conquest, which is the principal
object of our consideration. In the year 1543 the Observant religious,
the sons of the best beloved Benjamin, our common father, San Agustin
(to whom fell the first and greater part of the possession for the
conversion of the heathen, so far as that archipelago is concerned)
made the Philipinas Islands happy by their presence by commencing
to establish their apostolic preaching; [38] and later in the year
1565, they settled in order to complete what they had begun. Like
stars rain-laden with the evangelical doctrine those most zealous
ministers fertilized their Philipinas inheritance with their voluntary
showers. So much did they do so, that when the new laborers, the sons
of the seraph Francisco arrived at the field, there was scarce an
island which had not produced most abundant fruit for the granaries
of the Church because of the work of the first sowers; as is shown in
several places of his history by father Fray Gaspàr de San Agustin;
[39] and that lover of truth, father Fray Francisco de San Antonio
confesses it, thus honoring as he ought the Augustinian Hiermo
[sic]. The island of Mindòro also shared in this good fortune. In
its cultivation were employed fathers Fray Francisco de Ortèga and
Fray Diego de Mòxica. They, after having founded the village of Bàco,
endured innumerable misfortunes in a painful captivity, hoping for
hours for that death, which they anxiously desired in order to beautify
their heads with a painful martyrdom. But in order that one might see
that although the former worked above their strength, much remained
to be done by their successors, I shall cite here the exact words of
father Fray Gaspar de San Agustin in his Historia. "The convent,"
he says, "that we had in that island [of Mindòro: added by Assis]
was in the village of Bàco. Thence the religious went out to minister
to the converted natives. The latter were very few and the religious
suffered innumerable hardships because of the roughness of the roads
and the bad climate of some regions." [40]

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History

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 41 of 55, 1691-1700: 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

788. Let us now speak of its spiritual conquest, which is the principal
object of our consideration. In the year 1543 the Observant religious,
the sons of the best beloved Benjamin, our common father, San Agustin
(to whom fell the first and greater part of the possession for the
conversion of the heathen, so far as that archipelago is concerned)
made the Philipinas Islands happy by their presence by commencing
to establish their apostolic preaching; [38] and later in the year
1565, they settled in order to complete what they had begun. Like
stars rain-laden with the evangelical doctrine those most zealous
ministers fertilized their Philipinas inheritance with their voluntary
showers. So much did they do so, that when the new laborers, the sons
of the seraph Francisco arrived at the field, there was scarce an
island which had not produced most abundant fruit for the granaries
of the Church because of the work of the first sowers; as is shown in
several places of his history by father Fray Gaspàr de San Agustin;
[39] and that lover of truth, father Fray Francisco de San Antonio
confesses it, thus honoring as he ought the Augustinian Hiermo
[sic]. The island of Mindòro also shared in this good fortune. In
its cultivation were employed fathers Fray Francisco de Ortèga and
Fray Diego de Mòxica. They, after having founded the village of Bàco,
endured innumerable misfortunes in a painful captivity, hoping for
hours for that death, which they anxiously desired in order to beautify
their heads with a painful martyrdom. But in order that one might see
that although the former worked above their strength, much remained
to be done by their successors, I shall cite here the exact words of
father Fray Gaspar de San Agustin in his Historia. "The convent,"
he says, "that we had in that island [of Mindòro: added by Assis]
was in the village of Bàco. Thence the religious went out to minister
to the converted natives. The latter were very few and the religious
suffered innumerable hardships because of the roughness of the roads
and the bad climate of some regions." [40]

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

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