The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803; 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, commericial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the beginning of the nineteenth century; [Vol. 1, no. 36]

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THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS

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DECADE SEVENTH-BOOK FIRST
CHAPTER I
Treats of the fifth intermediary chapter; and of
some events in the province of Philipinas.
[The first section treats of the fifth intermediary
chapter of the order, which was held at Madrid,
May 27, I65I].
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The convent of Tdndag, in the province of Cardgha
of the Philipinas Islands, is demolished
232. Tandag is located in the island of Mindanao, and is the capital of the district of the jurisdiction of Caragha, where the alcalde-mayor resides.
In regard to ecclesiastical affairs, it belongs to the
bishopric of Zibu. Our convent which is found in
that settlement has charge of three thousand souls,
scattered in the said capital and in five annexed
villages called visitas. How much glory that convent has gained for God may be inferred from the
repeated triumphs which its most zealous ministers
obtained, thanks to His grace; and the words of our
most reverend and illustrious Don Fray Pedro de
San-Tiago, bishop of Solsona and Lerida, in the
relation of the voyage made by our discalced religious to the Indias are sufficient. "There was," he
says, "a powerful Indian, called Inuic, the lord of
Marieta, who, waging war on the Spaniards and
peaceable Indians, killed many of them in various
engagements while he captured more than two thou"[This book] belongs to the Library of the convent of the discalced Augustinian fathers of Valladolid. Fray Tomas de San
Jose, Librarian."