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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 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.

Demarcation line of Alexander VI; Missions -- Philippines; Philippines -- Discovery and exploration; Philippines -- History -- Sources

On the first day of March, 1654, the archbishop made publication of
these favors conferred by the pontiff; and all the people prepared with
great fervor to obtain them--so universally that the many confessors
of the clergy and the religious orders were hardly sufficient for
the numbers who resorted to them; and it was estimated that within
the city more than forty thousand persons made their confessions. The
result was very excellent, for many confessions were made anew that
had been for many years faultily made--either to conceal sins, or
for lack of sorrow for them--and of their own accord. Many general
confessions were made, and the grace of God was made apparent in
the excellent results which were experienced. Restitution was made
of honors and property, inveterate hatreds were uprooted, immoral
associations of many years' standing were broken up, and occasions for
continual stumbling were removed. On the twenty-second day a solemn
mass was sung in the cathedral, the blessed sacrament was exposed,
and the archbishop preached with the fervor that the case demanded. At
twelve o'clock the bells began to ring for prayers in all the churches,
the sound of the bells being a fresh awakener of consciences. In the
afternoon the archbishop went to the main plaza, where a stage had
been erected, of sufficient size, almost, for a court from above;
on it was an altar, with a crucifix for devotion, under a canopy. On
this stage sat the archbishop, with the ecclesiastical cabildo; and
the royal Audiencia were there with their president, the governor
and captain-general, also the regidors and the holy religious orders;
while there was an innumerable assembly from every sort of nation and
people, for whom there was not room in the plaza or in the streets,
or on the roofs. The archbishop put on his pontifical robes, and,
when the psalms were sung and the usual prayers offered, he publicly
uttered the blessing on the land and all its inhabitants in the name
of the supreme pontiff; and afterward the Te Deum was intoned, and
the chimes were rung by all the bells.

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History

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.

Demarcation line of Alexander VI; Missions -- Philippines; Philippines -- Discovery and exploration; Philippines -- History -- Sources

On the first day of March, 1654, the archbishop made publication of
these favors conferred by the pontiff; and all the people prepared with
great fervor to obtain them--so universally that the many confessors
of the clergy and the religious orders were hardly sufficient for
the numbers who resorted to them; and it was estimated that within
the city more than forty thousand persons made their confessions. The
result was very excellent, for many confessions were made anew that
had been for many years faultily made--either to conceal sins, or
for lack of sorrow for them--and of their own accord. Many general
confessions were made, and the grace of God was made apparent in
the excellent results which were experienced. Restitution was made
of honors and property, inveterate hatreds were uprooted, immoral
associations of many years' standing were broken up, and occasions for
continual stumbling were removed. On the twenty-second day a solemn
mass was sung in the cathedral, the blessed sacrament was exposed,
and the archbishop preached with the fervor that the case demanded. At
twelve o'clock the bells began to ring for prayers in all the churches,
the sound of the bells being a fresh awakener of consciences. In the
afternoon the archbishop went to the main plaza, where a stage had
been erected, of sufficient size, almost, for a court from above;
on it was an altar, with a crucifix for devotion, under a canopy. On
this stage sat the archbishop, with the ecclesiastical cabildo; and
the royal Audiencia were there with their president, the governor
and captain-general, also the regidors and the holy religious orders;
while there was an innumerable assembly from every sort of nation and
people, for whom there was not room in the plaza or in the streets,
or on the roofs. The archbishop put on his pontifical robes, and,
when the psalms were sung and the usual prayers offered, he publicly
uttered the blessing on the land and all its inhabitants in the name
of the supreme pontiff; and afterward the Te Deum was intoned, and
the chimes were rung by all the bells.

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

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