[XXVII‑26] According to Alcedo this occurred in 1593. Id.
[XXVII‑27] This see was created in 1602. Bishop Calderon died at Salinas when upwards of 100 years old and was buried in the convent of San Agustin of which he had been a great benefactor. Dávila, Teatro Ecles., ii. 58, 118.
[XXVII‑28] The sum of 3,770 pesos having been subscribed, the licentiate Terrin of Panamá offered to erect the buildings if a suitable site were provided, and expended for that purpose some 24,000 pesos. He further added an annual endowment of 2,000 pesos, reserving founder's rights (patronazgo) for himself. Panamá, Descrip., Pacheco and Cárdenas, Col. Doc., ix. 107; Figueroa, Vindicias, MS., 74.
[XXVII‑29] A cédula of July 1, 1580, stigmatizes this conduct as 'an abuse that must be stopped.' Pacheco and Cárdenas, Col. Doc., xvii. 488.
[XXVII‑30] While still a friar, Carabajal went to Spain and became prior of the royal convent of Valladolid, and during his attendance at court he was chosen assistant-general of all the provinces of Spain and the Indies, and reformador of the provinces of Bolonia and Romania by authority of Pope Clement VIII. Dicc. Univ., Hist. Geog., viii. 522. According to this authority he was a native of the city of Mexico, but Dávila, in Teatro Ecles., ii. 59, says he was a native of Cáceres in Estremadura.
[XXVII‑31] Panamá, Reales Cédulas, in Pacheco and Cárdenas, Col. Doc., xvii. 237-9.
[XXVII‑32] At this time Panamá had convents belonging to the Dominicans, the Franciscans, the Mercenarios, and the Jesuits, a flourishing nunnery, and a number of secular ecclesiastics. Its cathedral tithes amounted to 7,632 pesos, of which the prelate received 2,331. In the first named convent there were 10, in the second 11 religious; while the Mercenarios had 13 and the Jesuits 11. The nunnery had 24 nuns and 32 negroes of both sexes. The cathedral had two chapels, Santa Anna and San Cristóbal. Panamá, Descrip., in Pacheco and Cárdenas, Col. Doc., ix. 108. Some years later, from 1625-27, Gage says there were 8 convents and monasteries for friars and nuns. Voyage, ii. 78-91.
[XXVII‑33] Instituted in Granada in 1538 for special service in hospital work. They followed the rules of San Agustin. In 1572 Pope Clement V. approved the order and thenceforward the fraternity labored in their specialty.
[XXVII‑34] Cámara founded scholarships in the college of San Agustin and left an annuity of three hundred pesos to the Jesuit college, a sum for the maintenance of two chaplains in the choir, and 4,000 pesos for the church building fund. Gonzalez Dávila, Teatro Ecles., ii. 59, and Alcedo, Dic., iv. 35.
[XXVII‑35] The former lived to an advanced age, dying in 1649. He was a great ascetic, and refused a bishopric. His funeral was attended by the audiencia and all the noble families of the province. Santos, Chron. Hist., i. 303.