[26] Prauncar, the son of Langara; he had been replaced on his throne by the Spanish adventurers. See Morga’s account of Joan de Mendoza’s expedition to Camboja, and the death of these two Dominicans, in Vol. XV, pp. 183–190, 244–247.
[27] According to Morga’s account, this friar was a Dominican.
[28] The Dominicans made their first establishment at the City of Mexico in 1526; nine years later, their houses were organized into the province of Santiago de Mexico. In 1550, Chiapas and Guatemala were separated therefrom, and formed into a new province; and in 1592 permission was given to cut out still another, the province of Oajaca. Alonso de Vayllo was its second provincial (1594–97). See account of the Dominican order in Nueva España in the sixteenth century, in Bancroft’s Hist. Mexico, ii, pp. 724–733.
[29] i.e., “Christ became, for our sake, obedient even unto death.”
[30] Tomás Hernández was sent, soon after his arrival at Manila (1602), to the Japan mission; but at the end of four years he returned with broken health, which compelled him to cease his labors. He lingered, however, until 1642, when he died at Manila.
[31] See list of these missionaries in Reseña biográfica, i, pp. 307–319. Thirty-one arrived at Manila, besides the two who died on the way.
[32] One of the year-periods used in Japanese chronology (see Vol. VIII, p. 263). The Keicho period is 1596–1615.
[33] All these priests became martyrs, except Hernandez; the fate of the lay brother is unknown.
[34] One of the Koshiki Islands, lying west of Satsuma, and belonging to that district.
[35] Konishi Yukinaga Tsu-no-Kami, a noted general, was converted in 1584, and took the name of Augustin. In 1592 he commanded the main army (composed mainly of Christian Japanese) sent by Taikô-sama for the conquest of Korea. Konishi won renown in that enterprise, in which he was engaged until Taikô-sama’s death (1598) caused the recall of the Japanese troops from Korea. Opposing Iyeyasu, Konishi was among the prisoners taken at the battle of Sekigahara (1600), and was beheaded at Kioto. See Rein’s Japan, pp. 284–288, 290, 299.