The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 17 of 55 / 1609-1616 / 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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Province of the Philippine Islands

These islands have ninety-one [sic] members of the Order. Four have passed away; and the same number have been received into the Order.

	Total	Priests	Preceptors	Scholastics	Lay Brethren
Manila College	XXXII	XII		XI	IX
Seminary of St. Joseph	III	I		II
Elementary School	XI			IX	II
Establishment at Silang	II	I			I
Establishment at Antipolo	VII	IV			III
Cebu College	VIII	IV			IV
Bohol Residence	V	IV			I
Carigara Residence	VI	IV			II
Dulac Residence	VI	IV			II
Tinagon Residence	V	IV			I
Palapag Residence	V	IV			I
Arevalo Mission	II	I			I

Adults cleansed by holy baptism, two thousand three hundred and eight-three. Heretics condemned, twenty-three.

Chastity protected against suitors or immodest women, fifteen times.

Heretics reconciled, seven times.

The sacred commentaries have been used by eleven.

The Holy Cross and the recitation of the Gospel of St. John has rescued thirteen persons from various dangers; the Blessed Virgin, two; the Blessed Ignatius and Xavier, five.