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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

1119. That progress of the faith was preceded by many hardships
that were suffered by the religious, some of which I shall state,
noting that innumerable others are omitted, in order not to bore our
readers by their relation, and because they resemble those that we
shall relate. It has already been stated, then, that for the space
of more than thirty years there was but one convent in the three
islands, which was established in the village of Mobo, whence the
gospel laborers went out to administer all the settlements of the
district. For that purpose, it was absolutely necessary for them to
sail many leguas by boisterous seas, or to travel by land in some parts
by rough mountains, threatened in the one place with shipwreck and in
the other by continual dangers. Since the new convent was established
in the island of Ticào, the administration is more tolerable, although
it is always accompanied by indescribable fatigues. For the religious
of Mobo have to sail completely about the island of Masbàte in order
to fulfil their obligations, or if they prefer to journey by land,
as they are able, to one or two villages, they have to do it afoot
with the greatest discomfort, through inaccessible mountains, and
exposed to dangers wellnigh insupportable. The missionaries of Ticào,
besides having to coast a great part of that island have to go many
times during each year to that of Burìas, crossing the very stout
currents of the sea from the rapidity of which some of the missionaries
have found themselves in the utmost consternation. On the other hand,
all the time that the Indians remained Zimarrones, they allowed no
passage to the zealous laborers without them risking their lives to
innumerable dangers; and even after they had been reduced, the Moros
were a substitute for them on the outside, and inside many sorcerers,
who tried, some by violence, and others by their diabolical arts,
to drive thence, and even from the world, the ministers of souls. And
who can tell all that they suffered from all these causes? It was so
great that some religious, never more alive than when they were dead,
came to die in the campaign like good soldiers.

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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

1119. That progress of the faith was preceded by many hardships
that were suffered by the religious, some of which I shall state,
noting that innumerable others are omitted, in order not to bore our
readers by their relation, and because they resemble those that we
shall relate. It has already been stated, then, that for the space
of more than thirty years there was but one convent in the three
islands, which was established in the village of Mobo, whence the
gospel laborers went out to administer all the settlements of the
district. For that purpose, it was absolutely necessary for them to
sail many leguas by boisterous seas, or to travel by land in some parts
by rough mountains, threatened in the one place with shipwreck and in
the other by continual dangers. Since the new convent was established
in the island of Ticào, the administration is more tolerable, although
it is always accompanied by indescribable fatigues. For the religious
of Mobo have to sail completely about the island of Masbàte in order
to fulfil their obligations, or if they prefer to journey by land,
as they are able, to one or two villages, they have to do it afoot
with the greatest discomfort, through inaccessible mountains, and
exposed to dangers wellnigh insupportable. The missionaries of Ticào,
besides having to coast a great part of that island have to go many
times during each year to that of Burìas, crossing the very stout
currents of the sea from the rapidity of which some of the missionaries
have found themselves in the utmost consternation. On the other hand,
all the time that the Indians remained Zimarrones, they allowed no
passage to the zealous laborers without them risking their lives to
innumerable dangers; and even after they had been reduced, the Moros
were a substitute for them on the outside, and inside many sorcerers,
who tried, some by violence, and others by their diabolical arts,
to drive thence, and even from the world, the ministers of souls. And
who can tell all that they suffered from all these causes? It was so
great that some religious, never more alive than when they were dead,
came to die in the campaign like good soldiers.

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

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