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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and theology; moreover, that college has "no teachers who are acquainted with the first principles" of
medicine and law; and the curious statement is made
that there is no graduate physician in the Philippine Islands, since one could not obtain a living,
and the sick are treated by Chinese. There is no
need and no room there for a regular university, and
the burden of its support should not be imposed on
the treasury; but, if one be founded, it should be in
San Ignacio.
From a document of 1658 relating to the Inquisition we extract a description of the Philippines,
written in Mexico from data furnished by the Jesuit
Magino Sola. It outlines very briefly the government of Manila, civil and ecclesiastical; mentions
the convents, hospitals, and other public institutions
there; and enumerates the villages of that archbishopric, with mention of the missions conducted
therein by the several orders. Similar information
is given about the towns and villages of the suffragan
bishoprics; and the location, extent, government, and
missions of the principal islands in the archipelago,
including the Moluccas. At the end is a statement
regarding the number of commissaries of the Inquisition who are needed in the islands.
The Recollect historian Luis de Jesus relates in
his Historia (Madrid, 1681) the holy life and death
(1646) of Isabel, a native beata of Mindanao; and
the foundation in 1647, in the City of Mexico, of a
hospice for the shelter and accommodation of the
Recollects who pass through that city on their way
to Filipinas. The history of the discalced Augustinians for the decade I651-60 is found in the Historia
of Fray Diego de Santa Theresa (Barcelona, 1743),