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 separation of the Recollects from the regular
Augustinians, conceded by the pope. After the expiration of that office in I615 he spent the time until
1623 in work among the novices and as prior of the
convents of Manila and Cavite. July 1623 to February 1624, he acted again as vicar-provincial. In the
latter year he was chosen procurator to Spain, and
the representative of the Philippines to the general
chapter of the order to be held in I627. Sailing from
Manila in 1625, the remainder of his life was spent
in Spain in various employments and in retirement.
His death occurred between the years I649-1652.
Section vi of this chapter treats of the Recollect convent of San Juan de Bagumbaya (for whose early
history given in summary here, see VOL. XXI). In
1642, the governor Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera
ordered all the buildings in the village of 'Bagumbaya to be torn down for fear of the Dutch, among
them the convent. Despite the endeavor of the religious to save their convent, it was demolished and a
new fort begun there. The order had refused the
4,000 pesos offered them by the governor, saying that
their possessions were worth more than 5o,ooo. This
action of the governor was made part of the charges
in the residencia, and he was condemned to pay the
order 25,000 pesos, and the ground-plots were restored to them. Thereupon the fort was demolished,
and a new convent and church erected. Section vii
details the placing of the holy image of the Christ of
Humility and Patience (Santo Cristo de Humildad
y Paciencia) in the Recollect convent at Manila in
the year 1652.]
[Chapter v contains treatises on the lives of the
following Recollect missionaries in the Philippines.