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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
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[73] Hernaez (Colección de bulas, pp. 471, 472) prints a bull by
Clement XII, dated September 2, 1734, granting authority for the
teaching of both canon and civil law to the university established in
the college of Santo Tomás of the Order of St. Dominic at Manila, in
which portions of Innocent's bull are inserted. This bull (translated
by Rev. T. C. Middleton, O.S.A.) is as follows: "Clement XII Pope. In
future remembrance of the affair. Long ago at the instance of Philip
IV, of renowned memory, and during his life Catholic King of the
Spains, letters in the form of a brief, of the following tenor, were
issued by our predecessor, Innocent X, Pope, of happy memory, to wit:
[Here follow the portions of Innocent's bull which are quoted, and
Clement continues:]
"Since moreover, as has been represented to us lately on the part of
our very dear son in Christ, Philip, also Catholic King of the same
Spains, in the academy or university of general study of the said
college, two new chairs have been erected, one indeed of the canons,
to be held by a religious of the said order, the other, however,
of the institutes of civil and canon law, to be held by a doctor in
both laws, the afore named King Philip desires very earnestly that
the letters above inserted be extended by us ... to the two chairs
just erected as said....
"Accordingly as requested, by the said authority, in virtue of these
presents, the form and arrangement of the same letters inserted above
being maintained however in the others, we extend ... the letters or
indult above inserted to the above-named two new chairs also, until in
the said city of Manila another university be erected. Given at Rome,
at St. Mary Major's under the seal of the Fisherman, September 2, 1734,
the fifth year of our pontificate." A note by Hernaez reads as follows:
"Pope Clement XII conceded authority to grant academical degrees in
the college of the Society of Jesus in Manila, December 6, 1735, as
is mentioned by Father Murillo [Velarde] in his Cursus juris canonici
(Madrid, 1763), book v, título v, no. 62."
[74] The position of these two Latin clauses (Proverbs, xvii, 6) is
reversed in the Vulgate edition. The translation, according to the
Douay version, is: "Children's children are the crown of old men:
and the glory of the children are their fathers."
[75] See VOL. XXXV, pp. 203-208.
[76] Perhaps a reference to the Jesuits, who were expelled in 1768.
[77] See also the following documents regarding the college and
university of Santo Tomás: Foundation of the college, April 28, 1611,
VOL. XVII, pp. 155-171; Royal permission, November 27, 1623, VOL. XX,
pp. 260, 261; and University of Santo Tomás (royal letters in regard
to its elevation into a university), November 9, 1639, VOL. XXIX,
pp. 175-177.
[78] See this brief, ante, pp. 146-147, note 73.
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