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
When Antonio Nieto returned to Manila, he was accompanied by three
clerics, who came to be ordained as priests, as at that time they had
no bishop in Macán. One was Antonio Melo, the son of a rich Portuguese
of much repute in Macán named Basco Barbosa; and the others were people
of the country, that is, mestizos of Portuguese and Chinese blood. They
were ordained by the bishop of Zebú, Don Fray Diego de Aguilar;
and soon afterward they returned to Macán in a patache belonging
to that city, accompanied by two priests of the Society of Jesus,
mathematicians, who had come in the year 1679 with Father Francisco
Salgado, assigned by their general to the mission of China. This
vessel sailed about October, which is the time of the monsoon that
is unfavorable to this voyage; and no information whatever has been
received about it, or how or where it was lost, although great efforts
have been made for this by the citizens of Macán.
[Here follows an account of a punitive expedition against the Zambals,
which we have already given; see VOL. XXXVIII, pp. 226-228.]
The galleon "San Antonio," which had sailed in the previous year in
charge of General Don Francisco Enrique de Losada, reached Acapulco,
although it encountered heavy gales in the high latitudes, and returned
prosperously to these islands. It had not the good-fortune to come in
as far as the point of Cavite (a piece of luck which seldom occurs),
on account of the vendavals having set in steadily; and therefore it
made port in Solsogón. In this galleon came the following persons: The
father master Don Fray Ginés Barrientos, of the Order of Preachers,
and preacher to his Majesty, consecrated as bishop of Troya, to
be assistant for the archbishopric of Manila. He was a son of the
convent of Peña de Francia, and native of a place in Sayago called
Barroco Pardo; he was a very learned scholastic, a great preacher,
and a very observant religious. The father master Don Fray Juan Durán,
of the Order of Mercy, and a native of Lima; he came as consecrated
bishop of Sinopolis, and assistant to the bishop of Zebú; he was very
learned, and of very handsome figure and lofty stature. The entreaties
of his Majesty had obtained from his Holiness these two auxiliary
bishops, with two thousand pesos of income from his royal treasury,
and with the right of future succession to assume the government
of the vacant sees as they might occur. They brought the bulls and
pallium for the archbishop Don Fray Felipe Pardo, who in virtue of
these was consecrated on October 28; this was performed by the bishop
of Zebú, Don Fray Diego de Aguilar and the bishop of Troya, with
the assistance of the dean, Master Don Miguel Ortiz de Covarrubias,
who carried the mitre.
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