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
717. Since, then, he could not accomplish so well conceived love
which extended itself to the salvation of the whole world, he set
in operation the maxims which his burning charity dictated to him in
regard to the extensive limits entrusted by the Lord of the vineyard of
the Philipinas for the cultivation of our holy discalced order, with
a so visible utility to the Church. In the first place he arranged
with admirable prudence that certain missionary religious should
incessantly travel through the villages of our administration, like
swift angels or like light clouds in order to preach the obligation
of their character to the Christian Indians. They were to advise them
at the same time to take the sacraments frequently, of the horror
of idolatry, of the love of the faith, of obedience to the Church,
and to the appreciable submission to the Catholic king from which
so many blessings would follow to them, and by which they would be
delivered from innumerable evils. For that purpose he assigned two
religious of the Visayan language, one of the Tagálog, and one of
the Zambal--all of the spirit that such an occupation demanded. He
ordered each one of them to make continual journeys through the large
and small settlements of the district of his language, preaching the
mission with the same formalities that they are wont to observe in
Europa. He also ordered the father priors of the respective districts
to give such fathers every aid for that apostolic ministry, both
temporal and spiritual, as such was for the service of God and the
greater purity of our Catholic faith.
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