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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

806 [and 807]. The second convent was founded in the village of Naojàn
by the father definitor, Fray Eugenio de los Santos, and St. Nicholas
of Tolentino was assigned it as titular. Besides the said principal
village, it had in its charge six annexed villages of visitas, namely,
Pòla, Pinamalayàn, Balente, Sumàgay, Maliguo, and Bongàbong. However,
with the change of the district of Mangàrin, of which we shall
speak later, there was some variation in the distribution of those
settlements. That ministry is one of the first in authority in the
island, because of the great number of parishioners to which it has
increased, because a great multitude of heathen Manguiànes who have
been converted to our holy faith, have gone thither to live, as well
as a not small number of apostate Christians, who were wandering
at liberty through those mountains. All that was obtained by the
preaching of our laborers by whose efforts three of the said villages
were reëstablished. [Two prodigies or miraculous occurrences which
are related aided in the christianizing of this convent.]

808 [and 809]. Another and third convent was established in the convent
of Calavìte by the efforts of father Fray Diego de la Resurreccion,
and its titular was Nuestra Señora del Populo [i.e., Our Lady of the
People]. It has the annexed villages of Dòngon, Santa Cruz, Mambùrao,
Tubìli, and Santo Thomàs. Of those settlements, those that are on the
coast which extends from Calavìte to Mangàrin, have been founded for
the most part by dint of the zeal of our religious. They formerly had
many Christians, although at present they have suffered a remarkable
diminution because of the persecutions of the Moros which we have
already mentioned. [An epidemic that was raging throughout this
district when the convent was founded was checked miraculously. In
the same district, a heathen Manguian chief who had opposed the new
faith surrendered to the personal solicitation of Fray Diego de la
Resurreccion, and became a good Christian, and afterward aided in the
conversion of many others. The district was miraculously cleared of
the pest of locusts which were destroying all the fields.]

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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

806 [and 807]. The second convent was founded in the village of Naojàn
by the father definitor, Fray Eugenio de los Santos, and St. Nicholas
of Tolentino was assigned it as titular. Besides the said principal
village, it had in its charge six annexed villages of visitas, namely,
Pòla, Pinamalayàn, Balente, Sumàgay, Maliguo, and Bongàbong. However,
with the change of the district of Mangàrin, of which we shall
speak later, there was some variation in the distribution of those
settlements. That ministry is one of the first in authority in the
island, because of the great number of parishioners to which it has
increased, because a great multitude of heathen Manguiànes who have
been converted to our holy faith, have gone thither to live, as well
as a not small number of apostate Christians, who were wandering
at liberty through those mountains. All that was obtained by the
preaching of our laborers by whose efforts three of the said villages
were reëstablished. [Two prodigies or miraculous occurrences which
are related aided in the christianizing of this convent.]

808 [and 809]. Another and third convent was established in the convent
of Calavìte by the efforts of father Fray Diego de la Resurreccion,
and its titular was Nuestra Señora del Populo [i.e., Our Lady of the
People]. It has the annexed villages of Dòngon, Santa Cruz, Mambùrao,
Tubìli, and Santo Thomàs. Of those settlements, those that are on the
coast which extends from Calavìte to Mangàrin, have been founded for
the most part by dint of the zeal of our religious. They formerly had
many Christians, although at present they have suffered a remarkable
diminution because of the persecutions of the Moros which we have
already mentioned. [An epidemic that was raging throughout this
district when the convent was founded was checked miraculously. In
the same district, a heathen Manguian chief who had opposed the new
faith surrendered to the personal solicitation of Fray Diego de la
Resurreccion, and became a good Christian, and afterward aided in the
conversion of many others. The district was miraculously cleared of
the pest of locusts which were destroying all the fields.]

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

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