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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898; Volume 50: 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 50: 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 1769 there came to Manila on the frigate "Venus" various printed
books which sharply attacked the Jesuits, and censured their conduct
and teachings, while they extolled the expulsion decreed against that
order by Carlos III. These books began to circulate, and pass from
hand to hand, to the great satisfaction of the Jesuits' enemies and
the furious anger of their partisans; and a magistrate [i.e., Basaraz]
who was a friend to the Jesuits proceeded, without authorization,
charge, or commission from any one, to seize and prohibit the
said books, and arrested the person who was distributing them. [The
archbishop then wrote, besides the edict which follows this résumé, an
indignant letter to Raón, both of which are cited at some length by our
writer.] The fury of the Jesuits' partisans against the archbishop was
extraordinary; and they disseminated reports that he was a heretic,
and that his edict ought to be suppressed, with a thousand other
insults against his person and dignity. A friar theologian wrote a
confidential letter in defense of the Jesuits, and contradicting the
[aforesaid] printed books; the Jesuits had a multitude of copies of
this letter circulated. The archbishop immediately printed a long
answer (or refutation) to the said letter, and likewise circulated it
in profusion through the country. [The next feature of this controversy
was the circulation of a voluminous MS. document, defending the
theologian's letter and the teachings of the Jesuits. [151]








Decree by the archbishop of Manila

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We, Don Basilio Sancho de Santa Justa y Rufina, by the grace of God
and of the holy Apostolic See archbishop of Manila and metropolitan
of these Philipinas Islands; councilor and preacher to his Majesty,
and apostolic subdelegate; deputy vicar-general for the royal forces
on sea and land in this archdiocese and its suffragan dioceses for his
Eminence the lord Cardinal de la Cerda y San Carlos, the patriarch of
the Indias; chief almoner of the king our sovereign; chief chaplain
and vicar-general of the said royal forces in all his domains and
lordships; etc.:

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History

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898; Volume 50: 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 1769 there came to Manila on the frigate "Venus" various printed
books which sharply attacked the Jesuits, and censured their conduct
and teachings, while they extolled the expulsion decreed against that
order by Carlos III. These books began to circulate, and pass from
hand to hand, to the great satisfaction of the Jesuits' enemies and
the furious anger of their partisans; and a magistrate [i.e., Basaraz]
who was a friend to the Jesuits proceeded, without authorization,
charge, or commission from any one, to seize and prohibit the
said books, and arrested the person who was distributing them. [The
archbishop then wrote, besides the edict which follows this résumé, an
indignant letter to Raón, both of which are cited at some length by our
writer.] The fury of the Jesuits' partisans against the archbishop was
extraordinary; and they disseminated reports that he was a heretic,
and that his edict ought to be suppressed, with a thousand other
insults against his person and dignity. A friar theologian wrote a
confidential letter in defense of the Jesuits, and contradicting the
[aforesaid] printed books; the Jesuits had a multitude of copies of
this letter circulated. The archbishop immediately printed a long
answer (or refutation) to the said letter, and likewise circulated it
in profusion through the country. [The next feature of this controversy
was the circulation of a voluminous MS. document, defending the
theologian's letter and the teachings of the Jesuits. [151]








Decree by the archbishop of Manila

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We, Don Basilio Sancho de Santa Justa y Rufina, by the grace of God
and of the holy Apostolic See archbishop of Manila and metropolitan
of these Philipinas Islands; councilor and preacher to his Majesty,
and apostolic subdelegate; deputy vicar-general for the royal forces
on sea and land in this archdiocese and its suffragan dioceses for his
Eminence the lord Cardinal de la Cerda y San Carlos, the patriarch of
the Indias; chief almoner of the king our sovereign; chief chaplain
and vicar-general of the said royal forces in all his domains and
lordships; etc.:

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

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