The Italians said that the young students from those countries seemed to be especially given to excessive homesickness (nostalgia).--Rev. T. C. Middleton, O.S.A. [20] That is, "Go ye into the whole world, and preach the gospel to every creature" (Mark xvi, v. 15). [21] Thus characterized, because this long account of the hardships and dangers of missionary life is inserted in the midst of a sketch of Father Francisco Paliola, martyred in Mindanao in 1648. [22] "And the earth was corrupted before God, and was filled with iniquity" (Genesis 6, v. 11). [23] The Jesuit Diego Luis de San Vitores had just arrived (July, 1662) in Luzón with fourteen companions, in a patache, sent from Acapulco by Conde de Baños, viceroy of Mexico. [24] "Through evil report and good report" (II Corinthians vi, v. 8). [25] Tagálog words, meaning young men and girls of marriageable age. Barbateca does not appear in the standard lexicons. [26] See note on the masses, in VOL. XXXIX, p. 246, note 148. [27] "Saying: 'Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who wast, who art, and who art to come.'" [28] After citing numerous examples from the customs of various nations, Herbert Spencer concludes--Ceremonial Institutions (New York, 1880), pp. 128-131: "It seems that removal of the hat among European peoples, often reduced among ourselves to touching the hat, is a remnant of that process of unclothing himself by which, in early times, the captive expressed the yielding up of all that he had." [29] The provincial of the Society of Jesus in the Filipinas Islands, in a report to the king dated June 20, 1731, declares that the Society reckoned 173,938 souls in the 88 principal villages and some visitas which they were administering. This number, compared with the estimate for the preceding period of six years, showed an increase of 11,886 Christians; by this may be seen the increase which the population is steadily gaining--except that of the Marianas Islands, which has decreased. (Ventura del Arco MSS., iv, p. 307.) [30] Spanish, azicate; "a long-necked Moorish spur with a rowel at the end of it" (Appleton's Velázquez's Dictionary). The Latin quotation means, "He who spares the rod hates his son." [31] Spanish, lolios y zizañas. Lolio is an old form of joyo; and both joyo and zizaña (modern, cizaña) refer, according to Appleton's Velázquez's Dictionary, to the common darnel, or Lolium temulentum. [32] Spanish, la inata del Pays, la conatural al sexo, y la congenita entrañada en la Nacion. [33] That is, to Zabalburu, just one month after his entrance into office. [34] Polo: a personal service of forty days in the year. [35] This was Francisco Gueruela; see summary of his report on this visitation, in VOL. XLII, p. 120.