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 galleon arrived three religious belonging to the mission of
father Fray Juan García; they were choristers, and had been left
in Nueva España, to be ordained as priests, and their names are
as follows: father Fray Francisco Castrillón, a native of Madrid,
and son of the convent of San Felipe; he was twenty-four years
old, and had spent nine in the order. He was a minister in Tagalos
until the year 1690, when he returned to Méjico, where he died soon
afterward. Father Fray Dionisio Navarro, a native of Leganés, and a
son of the same convent of San Felipe; he was twenty-four years old,
and had spent seven in the order. He was a good preacher, and well
versed in the dialects of the province of Tagalos. He went to España
and returned hither, and died in the convent of Manila from a long and
painful infirmity, on November 2, 1714. Father Fray Antonio Gutiérrez,
a native of Medina Sidonia, and a son of the province of Andalucía. For
only a short time he was a minister in Tagalos, because he soon fell
ill with a contraction of the tendons [tullimiento], which lasted
until his death; this occurred at Manila, in the year 1693.
The arrival of this bishop of Zebú served as a great spiritual
consolation for these islands; for he repeatedly performed pontifical
functions, conferring holy orders on a great number of religious and
clerics. He interceded with the governor, in order to reconcile with
him those who had taken refuge in the churches through fear of some
oppression from the absolute power of the governor--which can not
be compared with any other power in the universe; and the worst is,
that no means can be thought of for moderating and tempering it within
the bounds of reason, because the distance of five thousand leguas
which lies between the royal court of Madrid and Filipinas cannot
be diminished. The swiftest post, therefore, requires three years,
and most of them four; and if it happens that the galleon is obliged
to put back to port, the mail is delayed to five or six years. At
the end of so protracted a term as this, the most peremptory royal
rescript is exposed to the danger of being withheld by the governor,
according to his pleasure. The lord bishop with his intercession
withdrew from asylum in the house of the Society of Jesus the secretary
of Don Juan de Vargas, Captain Miguel Sánchez de Villanueva y Tejada,
and restored him to favor with his master--although soon afterward
the governor removed him from his service, making him alcalde-mayor
of Laguna de Bay.
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