The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 42, 1670-1700: 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 42, 1670-1700: 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
In this private session father Fray Juan García declared under oath,
in verbo sacerdotis, that, having kissed the feet of our most holy
father Innocent XI on September 20, 1677, among other favors which his
Holiness had granted him the latter had told him that by his apostolic
authority he made good all the defects which might have occurred in
the elections of this province, from its foundation until the said
day. His Holiness granted him several jubilees for certain convents,
and eleven thousand ordinary indulgences, in the new form which his
Holiness has promulgated; and gave him two notable relics, a bone of
St. Venturino the Martyr [73]--the first for the hospice at Méjico,
and the other for the convent of San Pablo at Manila. Father Fray
Juan García also obtained from his Holiness, on petition by this
province, a bull in which he granted that all the procurators who
may go to Rome and bring hither missions of religious shall enjoy
the same exemptions which those possess who have been provincials
(who are called absolutos); this was accepted [by the Council of
Indias], and father Fray Juan García was the first who enjoyed this
privilege, all his life. But he, as the devout religious that he
was, would not allow the religious to address him as "Our Father,"
as is the custom with the provincials, both active and retired;
and, retiring to the province of Ilocos, where he was minister,
he devoted himself to leading an exemplary life, abandoning himself
entirely to meditation, mortification, and prayer until his death,
and leaving behind a noble example as a sincere religious.
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