The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 43, 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 — John Shaqi
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 43, 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 43, 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
However, having placed all his confidence in God, and with the
information that he possessed of the whole matter, he began to summon
one after another the chiefs, and chide each one in private for the
execrable evil that he was practicing by offering sacrifice to the
demon. Before that one could deny the truth to him, he said to him,
"You have such and such instruments, and with them you sacrificed
on such and such a day, in company with such and such a person." To
another he said: "You are a priest, and consequently, you have
so many instruments kept in such a place for the sacrifices, by
which you give to the demon the honor that belongs to God; and as
proof of it you performed that sacrifice on such and such a day
with such and such a person, and this other on such and such a day,
with such and such a person." In such wise did he examine them all
and censured them for so great evil. They, seeing that he was giving
them so sure proofs, considered the religious as a diviner and gave
him the instruments of their idolatries. He commenced by the village
of Bauguen, whose church was dedicated to Santa Rosa. By the aid and
favor of the saint he collected a great number of those instruments,
which some gave to him willingly and some reluctantly. He called
the children, and ordered them to break up those instruments, and
they obeyed immediately. "Now throw them into the privies," said the
father, "and let the children perform the necessities of nature on
them." They obeyed his order instantly, and made a mockery and jest
of those instruments. The Zambals were astonished that the father and
the children were not killed for the disrespect that they showed to
their gods, for they believed that he who touched or profaned such
instruments would die. The father preached to them, and taught them
what they were to do in the future. Having finished that matter in
Bauguen, he went to Balacbac to do the same; and although he had some
difficulty, with the help of God, it was conquered. From Balacbac
he went to the village of Alalan, and although he found the people
there obstinate and pertinacious, by his kindness and arguments,
he induced them to do the same that had been done in the preceding
villages. Then he went to Buquil and did the same as in Playa-Honda,
breaking and burning all the instruments of their idolatries. And
although the father had many troubles on account of that, he stood it
all with great patience, as he saw that he was performing the cause
of God in this; for which, as we shall see later, they deprived him
of life and made him a glorious martyr.
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