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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

828. The governor conformed to the plea of the fiscal. Consequently,
on the same day he despatched in due form a second decree in the
king's name, ordering the superior prelate of our province, in
consideration of the extreme necessity of the islands of Calamiànes, to
immediately establish the necessary ministers therein for the spiritual
consolation of those Indians. He added that Don Fray Diego de Aguilar
of the Order of Preachers, the bishop recently appointed for Zebù
(to whose miter the said islands belonged) despatched ex-officio
his decree also charging our province with the administration of all
the Christian villages established in Calamiànes, or that were to be
established in the future; and says that he does so in consideration
of the apostolic zeal of our reformed order and the spirit that
always assists them in trampling under foot the greatest fatigues,
so that many souls might be gathered into the flock of the Catholic
church. Thereupon the father provincial, Fray Thomàs de San Geronimo,
could offer no more resistance and sent father Fray Nicolàs de
Santa Ana as vicar-provincial of Calamiànes, with two associates. The
alcalde-mayor of the said province, Don Diego Bibièn Henriquez, placed
them in possession of the ministry of Taytày (which is the chief one
of them all) on the first of November, 1680, to the universal joy of
the Indians. The latter showed by extraordinary festivals their joy
at seeing that the direction of their spirits was in charge of the
same fathers who had engendered them through the gospel. The king,
by his decree dated December 24, 1682, confirmed the said possession
at the petition of the father commissary of Philipinas, Fray Juan de
la Madre de Dios, with great signs of his royal pleasure.

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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

828. The governor conformed to the plea of the fiscal. Consequently,
on the same day he despatched in due form a second decree in the
king's name, ordering the superior prelate of our province, in
consideration of the extreme necessity of the islands of Calamiànes, to
immediately establish the necessary ministers therein for the spiritual
consolation of those Indians. He added that Don Fray Diego de Aguilar
of the Order of Preachers, the bishop recently appointed for Zebù
(to whose miter the said islands belonged) despatched ex-officio
his decree also charging our province with the administration of all
the Christian villages established in Calamiànes, or that were to be
established in the future; and says that he does so in consideration
of the apostolic zeal of our reformed order and the spirit that
always assists them in trampling under foot the greatest fatigues,
so that many souls might be gathered into the flock of the Catholic
church. Thereupon the father provincial, Fray Thomàs de San Geronimo,
could offer no more resistance and sent father Fray Nicolàs de
Santa Ana as vicar-provincial of Calamiànes, with two associates. The
alcalde-mayor of the said province, Don Diego Bibièn Henriquez, placed
them in possession of the ministry of Taytày (which is the chief one
of them all) on the first of November, 1680, to the universal joy of
the Indians. The latter showed by extraordinary festivals their joy
at seeing that the direction of their spirits was in charge of the
same fathers who had engendered them through the gospel. The king,
by his decree dated December 24, 1682, confirmed the said possession
at the petition of the father commissary of Philipinas, Fray Juan de
la Madre de Dios, with great signs of his royal pleasure.

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

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