The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 44, 1700-1736: 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 44, 1700-1736: 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 artillery of the fort, and serve in the [Spanish] armada. With
this arrangement that coast remained peaceable, for the insurgents of
Siocon had also been seized by craft. Father Combés went to that place,
and encountered very heavy seas, not only at entering but on leaving
that village; and arguing [from this] that God was not allowing them
to go until they interred the bones of the companions of Father Campo,
they all lauded on the shore, and searched for the bodies among the
thorny thickets. Having interred all of them together, and said a
mass for them, the Spaniards placed a cross over the sepulcher; and
immediately the weather became calm, so that the caracoas were able
to set out. At that time Father Combés carried away a hermit, who,
clothed as a woman, strictly observed the law of nature, and professed
celibacy. He was called "the Labia of Malandi;" and he was converted
to the religion of Christ, in which he lived as a faithful servant.
In La Caldera was introduced the devotion to the blessed souls in
purgatory, and suffrages for the deceased, which never had been
publicly performed among any Subanos. To render this service more
solemn, the musicians were carried thither from Samboangan; and
this, joined with the father's exhortations, introduced in their
hearts pious solicitude for their dead--so well begun that, in the
midst of their native poverty and the dulness of their minds, they
carried with them many candles, with rice and other offerings. From
that place this holy devotion was gradually communicated through all
those villages, following the example of La Caldera--which then was
the principal village, in which the minister resided; and to it were
annexed Bocot, Malandi, and Baldasan. Besides the above-mentioned
cases, others occurred with which the Lord consoled the ministers,
in recompense for the misery, hardships, and forlorn condition of
those arduous and remote missions.
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