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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

1115. A very lamentable event for the islands which happened in the
year 1726, was the reason for the founding of another convent in
Ticào. It happened as follows. The galleon "Santo Christo de Burgos,"
while making its voyage to Nueva España, anchored at the port of Ticào
in order to await good weather before taking to the open sea. But
it was shipwrecked there by a storm which came upon it. On board
that vessel was Don Julian de Velasco, a minister assigned to the
Audiencia of Mexico. He managed to obtain his spiritual improvement
from that disaster so transcendental to all classes of Philipinas
by the practice of good works. He did not care to return to Manìla,
although he could have done so, but remained with all his family in the
said port until he could get passage the next year. Among what he was
able to save of his lost possessions, he placed his first attention in
seeing that the holy image of the holy Christ of Burgos which was on
the ship as its titular, should not be lost; for it was his intention
to place it at his own expense in some church, so that it might have
public veneration for the benefit of souls. Scarcely, then, did he have
that celestial treasure in his hands, when he exposed it to worship on
the high altar of the church of Ticào with ornaments suitable to his
devout affection. Thereafter followed the assignment of some income
so that there might be a resident evangelical minister there, both
so that a chaplain might not at least be wanting to the holy image,
and so that the Indians might not lack more continual teaching. For
that reason, the province afterward determined to found a convent in
Ticào. To it were assigned the villages situated in the islands of
Ticào and Burìas, and to the convent of Mobo those of the island of
Masbate. The ministers were thus able to obtain more relief because
their number had increased, although they still had much to do in
order to attend to everything.




§ II

Relation of the progress made by Catholicism in those islands by the
preaching of our laborers; and the great hardships that they suffered
for that end.

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

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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

1115. A very lamentable event for the islands which happened in the
year 1726, was the reason for the founding of another convent in
Ticào. It happened as follows. The galleon "Santo Christo de Burgos,"
while making its voyage to Nueva España, anchored at the port of Ticào
in order to await good weather before taking to the open sea. But
it was shipwrecked there by a storm which came upon it. On board
that vessel was Don Julian de Velasco, a minister assigned to the
Audiencia of Mexico. He managed to obtain his spiritual improvement
from that disaster so transcendental to all classes of Philipinas
by the practice of good works. He did not care to return to Manìla,
although he could have done so, but remained with all his family in the
said port until he could get passage the next year. Among what he was
able to save of his lost possessions, he placed his first attention in
seeing that the holy image of the holy Christ of Burgos which was on
the ship as its titular, should not be lost; for it was his intention
to place it at his own expense in some church, so that it might have
public veneration for the benefit of souls. Scarcely, then, did he have
that celestial treasure in his hands, when he exposed it to worship on
the high altar of the church of Ticào with ornaments suitable to his
devout affection. Thereafter followed the assignment of some income
so that there might be a resident evangelical minister there, both
so that a chaplain might not at least be wanting to the holy image,
and so that the Indians might not lack more continual teaching. For
that reason, the province afterward determined to found a convent in
Ticào. To it were assigned the villages situated in the islands of
Ticào and Burìas, and to the convent of Mobo those of the island of
Masbate. The ministers were thus able to obtain more relief because
their number had increased, although they still had much to do in
order to attend to everything.




§ II

Relation of the progress made by Catholicism in those islands by the
preaching of our laborers; and the great hardships that they suffered
for that end.

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

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