The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume 31, 1640 / 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

by Diego Aduarte

[36] Owotomo Bungo-no-Kami (called Franciscus by the Jesuits), the most powerful feudal lord in Kiushiu, was one of the first daimiôs in Japan to accept Christianity, and was the main support of the missions in their early years. He died in 1587. The family of this prince were deprived, under Iyeyasu, of their possessions, which were divided among the latter’s adherents. See Rein’s Japan, pp. 273, 519.

[37] This was a soldier named Joan Diaz (Vol. XV, pp. 189, 279). Cf. Morga’s account of this Dominican mission (Vol. XV, pp. 279, 280).

[38] Jerónimo de Belén, a Portuguese by birth, came in the mission of 1595, from Puebla de los Angeles, Mexico. He ministered at Bataán, Manila, and Cavite respectively; in 1603 went on the Camboja mission, and on its failure returned to Manila. He died in 1642, in Pampanga.

[39] Sketches of the lives of all these friars are given in Reseña biográfica, i, pp. 320–327.

[40] This friar came in 1604; he died at Nasiping, July 16, 1611.

[41] Pedro Muriel came to the islands in 1615, and was sent to the Cagayán missions, where he seems to have spent most of his remaining years. He died at Manila, about 1642.

[42] Itaves is a district south of central Cagayán, on the waters of the Rio Chico de Cagayan (or Bangag River). It has over 15,000 inhabitants, contained in more than a hundred villages; these people are mainly Calauas, and are heathen Malays. See U. S. Gazetteer of Philippine Islands, p. 561; also Smithsonian Report, 1899, p. 535.

[43] Juan de Naya spent most of his missionary life in Cagayán. Finally being ordered to Mexico, he died on the voyage thither, January 27, 1620.

[44] Andres de Haro, a native of Toledo, made his profession at Cuenca in 1613. He came to the Philippines in 1615, and spent more than forty years in the Cagayán missions. At various times he filled important offices in Manila, among them, that of commissary of the Inquisition. He died in that city, September 19, 1670, at the age of seventy-six years.

[45] Apparently a reference to the Jesuit Alonso Sanchéz, who had gone in 1586 to Spain (see Vol. VI) as envoy from the various estates of the Philippine colony.