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
[In September, 1704, arrives at Manila the papal legate Carlos
Thomas Tournon, on his way to China for the settlement of various
ecclesiastical difficulties there; he treats the governor and other
officials [36] with arrogance, refusing to exhibit his credentials,
and exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction to such an extent that
he antagonizes the religious orders and infringes on the royal
prerogatives. These proceedings are tolerated by both governor
and archbishop, although manifestly improper and objectionable;
but when they are reported at Madrid the king is greatly displeased,
and decrees that the governor be removed from office, and disqualified
for holding it, and those of the auditors who assented to his acts be
punished. Archbishop Camacho also incurs the displeasure of the king,
which is increased by his having meddled with the affairs of the
royal seminary of San Phelipe, and used at his own pleasure certain
ecclesiastical revenues properly in charge of the secular government;
and the governor fails to check him, and even to notify the home
government of these unwarranted proceedings, which are reported at
Madrid by ecclesiastical channels. Camacho is accordingly removed
from his see, and transferred to the bishopric of Guadalaxara in
Mexico. [37] (He is regarded by Concepción as a very zealous and
charitable prelate; he collected from various sources more than
40,000 pesos, which he spent in the adornment and improvement of the
cathedral church at Manila, and for this and other pious purposes he
incurred debts amounting to over 20,000 pesos more. He promoted the
missions of Paynaan and San Isidro, going in person to persuade the
Aetas (or Negritos) to be converted.) Zabalburú, having undergone
his residencia, leaves Manila in the year 1710, and, after having
suffered shipwreck in the Bahama Channel, reaches Spain, where he dies
after a few years. In 1707 the Acapulco galleon "Rosario" arrives,
"with so much silver that it made that fair [at Acapulco] famous;"
it also brings a new archbishop, Fray Francisco de la Cuesta,
"a professed religious in the distinguished monastic order of San
Geronimo," who wins golden opinions from all. [38] Before long,
however, the old question of the right of episcopal visitation of
the regular curas again arises; Cuesta tries to enforce this right,
but with little result. [39] A full account of this is given by
Concepción, with the arguments adduced therein.]
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