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.
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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.
Demarcation line of Alexander VI; Missions -- Philippines; Philippines -- Discovery and exploration; Philippines -- History -- Sources
1114. But since it was necessary for this attainment to found some
convent, they erected it that same year in the village of Mobo, which
had the most inhabitants. It has Nuestra Señora de los Remedios [i.e.,
our Lady of Remedies] as titular, and a very costly church is being
built which abounds in reredoses and other adornments with a sacristy
provided with vestments [? jocalias] and ornaments. The house is very
capacious and has all the necessary rooms and has moreover cells for
the religious who generally live in it. That convent was the refuge of
the gospel ministers who lived in it in suitable number to look after
the Christians in spiritual matters and to allure the apostates to
the bosom of the Christian religion which they had abandoned. Thence,
as swift moving clouds, they went out to fertilize the other villages
with the water of their doctrine and having become hunters of souls,
to overrun the deserts and mountains. Although there were not more
than six villages in the three islands when our discalced religious
entered to administer them, in a few years they established three more
where they could shelter those who were being reduced to our holy
faith. And hence the workers of that mission with inexplicable toil
cared for a great number of souls who dwelt in the capital of Mobo, and
in its annexed villages or visitas of Ticào, Burìas, Balino, Palànog,
Habuyoàn, Tagmasùso, Buracàn, and Limbojan. In that extensive territory
not few times did God explain His mercies with repeated miracles in
confirmation of the faith which Ours were preaching. Some received
with baptism the health of the body, and others found themselves freed
from their pains by the prayers of the ministers, accompanied by the
laying on of hands. However, inasmuch as the manuscripts give us these
notices without specification, we cannot name the individual miracles.
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