The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898; Volume 49 / 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 Unknown

[Addressed: “My Father Joseph de Rueda.”]

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[1] Francisco Javier de la Torre. [↑]

[2] The diminutive of Moros. [↑]

[3] Evidently a reference to Sebastian Joseph Carvalho e Mello, Marquis Pombal, the Portuguese prime minister, who expelled the Jesuits from Portugal by the decree of September 1, 1759; and to the famous Lisbon earthquake of November 1, 1755. See Nicolini’s History of Jesuits (London, 1879); Cretineau-Joly’s Histoire de la Compagnie de Jésus (Paris, 1859), v; and Griesinger’s Jesuits (London, 1903, 3d ed.). [↑]

[4] The storm against the Jesuits, which ended with the expulsion of the order in 1770. [↑]

LETTER FROM PAZUENGOS TO MESQUIDA

Jesus

Pax Christi.