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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

History

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

The time arrived for holding the session of the provincial chapter--the
time in which the troubles which so many difficulties had caused to
this province were to cease, and when not only the former peace and
concord were to return, but great gains were to be secured in religious
observance; for from the time of this chapter-meeting this province
began to grow more strict, and to grow in all that conduces to its
greater splendor, every chapter-session increasing in strictness of
observance, to the greater glory of our regular institute. Such are
usually the benefits that arise from the judicious choice of a good
superior, who undertakes to fulfil the obligations of his office. The
chapter was convened in the convent of Manila on April 14, 1674; its
president was the father definitor Fray Luis de Montuyar, on account
of the deaths of the two senior definitors, Master Fray José de
Mendoza and Fray Isidro Rodríguez. By general agreement the election
for provincial fell on our father Fray José Duque, commissary of the
Holy Office. He was a native of Oropesa, and was fifty-six years old;
a son of the convent of San Felipe at Madrid, and a very near relative
of the glorious saint Teresa de Jesús; and an able minister in the
province of Pampanga, besides having much to do with its pacification
in the disturbances in that province which we have already related. He
came over to this province of Filipinas in the year 1645, and always
had the reputation of being a religious of very strict observance,
with great ability as a ruler; and this province found him to be
such during an experience of many years in his four terms of office
therein--three as provincial, and one as rector-provincial--being
always reverenced as the father of it. As definitors were elected
fathers Fray Enrique de Castro, Fray José Gutiérrez, Fray Bernardino
Márquez, and Fray Bartolomé de la Torre; and as visitors fathers Fray
Antonio de Villela and the reader Fray José Rubio. Ordinances and
regulations very suitable for the good government of the province
were enacted, not many in number but useful and judicious.

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History

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

The time arrived for holding the session of the provincial chapter--the
time in which the troubles which so many difficulties had caused to
this province were to cease, and when not only the former peace and
concord were to return, but great gains were to be secured in religious
observance; for from the time of this chapter-meeting this province
began to grow more strict, and to grow in all that conduces to its
greater splendor, every chapter-session increasing in strictness of
observance, to the greater glory of our regular institute. Such are
usually the benefits that arise from the judicious choice of a good
superior, who undertakes to fulfil the obligations of his office. The
chapter was convened in the convent of Manila on April 14, 1674; its
president was the father definitor Fray Luis de Montuyar, on account
of the deaths of the two senior definitors, Master Fray José de
Mendoza and Fray Isidro Rodríguez. By general agreement the election
for provincial fell on our father Fray José Duque, commissary of the
Holy Office. He was a native of Oropesa, and was fifty-six years old;
a son of the convent of San Felipe at Madrid, and a very near relative
of the glorious saint Teresa de Jesús; and an able minister in the
province of Pampanga, besides having much to do with its pacification
in the disturbances in that province which we have already related. He
came over to this province of Filipinas in the year 1645, and always
had the reputation of being a religious of very strict observance,
with great ability as a ruler; and this province found him to be
such during an experience of many years in his four terms of office
therein--three as provincial, and one as rector-provincial--being
always reverenced as the father of it. As definitors were elected
fathers Fray Enrique de Castro, Fray José Gutiérrez, Fray Bernardino
Márquez, and Fray Bartolomé de la Torre; and as visitors fathers Fray
Antonio de Villela and the reader Fray José Rubio. Ordinances and
regulations very suitable for the good government of the province
were enacted, not many in number but useful and judicious.

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

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