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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 45, 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

History

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 45, 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

Mother Paula de la Santísima Trinidad, native of Cataluña, had
scarcely arrived at Manila in 1750, when she dedicated herself to
the education of girls and was the origin of this foundation. By
a royal decree of September 22, 1774, his Majesty ordered that the
house or beaterio founded by this good woman should take care of the
education of every class of girls. It is maintained by alms, by the
work of their hands, and by the few small fees which some girls pay
for their support therein, where they are taught reading, sewing,
etc. Neither their number nor that of the servants is fixed. His
Majesty has taken it under his protection, and entrusted it in his
name to the regent of the Audiencia, with the fitting powers.




BEATERIO OF PASIG

In this village there is a house of teaching, or a beaterio entitled
Santa Rita, which was founded in 1740 with the necessary licenses
by the calced Augustinian, Fray Felix de Trillo, then parish priest
of Pasig. Its primary object is to provide shelter for Filipino
orphan girls, and to teach them reading, writing, Christian doctrine,
sewing, embroidery, and other employments fitting for their sex. They
dress when they go to the parish church in the habit of mantelates of
St. Augustine, but they take no vow or obligation. Those educated and
sheltered dress as in their own homes. This beaterio is sustained by
the work of their hands and by alms, under the care and solicitous
management of the parish priests. The latter are not those who give
the least alms for its useful preservation, and that from the product
of some estates which they have rented out, and which they acquired
by their economy. Furthermore, the young women who enter as wards
pay when their relatives are able, according to their wealth, up to
the sum of two pesos per month. That is the greatest fee, but it is
more usual for each one who is educated to contribute a few cavans
of palay per year--generally about ten or twelve. But those who are
quite poor and orphans pay nothing. This retreat has at the present
time sixteen beatas.







EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND CONDITIONS

    Public instruction; condition of the sciences of letters and arts

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History

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 45, 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

Mother Paula de la Santísima Trinidad, native of Cataluña, had
scarcely arrived at Manila in 1750, when she dedicated herself to
the education of girls and was the origin of this foundation. By
a royal decree of September 22, 1774, his Majesty ordered that the
house or beaterio founded by this good woman should take care of the
education of every class of girls. It is maintained by alms, by the
work of their hands, and by the few small fees which some girls pay
for their support therein, where they are taught reading, sewing,
etc. Neither their number nor that of the servants is fixed. His
Majesty has taken it under his protection, and entrusted it in his
name to the regent of the Audiencia, with the fitting powers.




BEATERIO OF PASIG

In this village there is a house of teaching, or a beaterio entitled
Santa Rita, which was founded in 1740 with the necessary licenses
by the calced Augustinian, Fray Felix de Trillo, then parish priest
of Pasig. Its primary object is to provide shelter for Filipino
orphan girls, and to teach them reading, writing, Christian doctrine,
sewing, embroidery, and other employments fitting for their sex. They
dress when they go to the parish church in the habit of mantelates of
St. Augustine, but they take no vow or obligation. Those educated and
sheltered dress as in their own homes. This beaterio is sustained by
the work of their hands and by alms, under the care and solicitous
management of the parish priests. The latter are not those who give
the least alms for its useful preservation, and that from the product
of some estates which they have rented out, and which they acquired
by their economy. Furthermore, the young women who enter as wards
pay when their relatives are able, according to their wealth, up to
the sum of two pesos per month. That is the greatest fee, but it is
more usual for each one who is educated to contribute a few cavans
of palay per year--generally about ten or twelve. But those who are
quite poor and orphans pay nothing. This retreat has at the present
time sixteen beatas.







EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND CONDITIONS

    Public instruction; condition of the sciences of letters and arts

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

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