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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

1124. And now in order to conclude in a few words, a matter that we
can not even with many words consider adequately, we add that the
venerable fathers Fray Antonio de Santa Monica and Fray Thomàs de San
Lucas said many times without a trace of boasting that, although they
had been many times in the doctrinas and missions, in none of them
had they found so much to suffer as in that of Masbàte. Father Fray
Francisco de Santa Engarcia was twice in imminent danger of death;
first in shipwreck and later because an Indian tried to kill him,
for the reason that he had tried to get him to give up a certain
concubinage. But God having freed him from those dangers, allowed him
to perish in another through His occult judgments. It was a fact that
that father when attending to the fulfilment of his obligation gave
motive that certain of the Zimarron Indians whom he was endeavoring to
establish soundly in the Catholic faith gave him certain death-dealing
powders in his food, which although they did not deprive him of life
rendered him insensible and he became most pitiably insane. Many other
religious, whom we shall not mention for various reasons, suffered
so much while ministers of those islands, by shipwreck, bad weather,
and persecution, that if they did not obtain the crown to which they
aspired by death, they were left with their health totally lost,
and lived amid continual aches and pains, until their last breath
opened for them, after some years, a pathway to heaven in order that
they might enjoy the reward of their well endured conflicts.

[The remaining sections of this chapter and the two final chapters
of the book do not touch Philippine matters.]




II

Extracts from Juan de la Concepcion's Historia


[It is thought advisable to append to the above extracts from the
Historia of Pedro de San Francisco de Assis, the following extracts
from Concepción's Historia. The first extract is from vol. viii,
pp. 3-16, and includes a portion of the first chapter. It treats of
the transfer of the province of Zambal to the Dominicans, and the
occupation of the island of Mindoro by the Recollects.]

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

Opening the text

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

1124. And now in order to conclude in a few words, a matter that we
can not even with many words consider adequately, we add that the
venerable fathers Fray Antonio de Santa Monica and Fray Thomàs de San
Lucas said many times without a trace of boasting that, although they
had been many times in the doctrinas and missions, in none of them
had they found so much to suffer as in that of Masbàte. Father Fray
Francisco de Santa Engarcia was twice in imminent danger of death;
first in shipwreck and later because an Indian tried to kill him,
for the reason that he had tried to get him to give up a certain
concubinage. But God having freed him from those dangers, allowed him
to perish in another through His occult judgments. It was a fact that
that father when attending to the fulfilment of his obligation gave
motive that certain of the Zimarron Indians whom he was endeavoring to
establish soundly in the Catholic faith gave him certain death-dealing
powders in his food, which although they did not deprive him of life
rendered him insensible and he became most pitiably insane. Many other
religious, whom we shall not mention for various reasons, suffered
so much while ministers of those islands, by shipwreck, bad weather,
and persecution, that if they did not obtain the crown to which they
aspired by death, they were left with their health totally lost,
and lived amid continual aches and pains, until their last breath
opened for them, after some years, a pathway to heaven in order that
they might enjoy the reward of their well endured conflicts.

[The remaining sections of this chapter and the two final chapters
of the book do not touch Philippine matters.]




II

Extracts from Juan de la Concepcion's Historia


[It is thought advisable to append to the above extracts from the
Historia of Pedro de San Francisco de Assis, the following extracts
from Concepción's Historia. The first extract is from vol. viii,
pp. 3-16, and includes a portion of the first chapter. It treats of
the transfer of the province of Zambal to the Dominicans, and the
occupation of the island of Mindoro by the Recollects.]

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

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