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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erly been an Augustinian of the Observant branch,
but who joined the Recollects. He went to Manila in
I634 with the desire to go to Japan, learning some
little of that language for that purpose. After much
entreaty he obtained permission from the provincial
of the order to go to Japan in 1635, but he was unable
to effect his purpose. He served as prior in the
Cavite convent, was twice superior of the convent of
San Juan Bautista in Bagnumbaya, prior of the
Manila convent, twice definitor; twice visitor of
Calamianes and Mindoro. He was elected procurator in place of Jacinto de San Fulgencio, and after
various setbacks arrived in Mexico in I657, where
he died in December of that same year.]
[Chapter vi deals with the life of Andres del
Espiritu Santo. That valiant worker was born in
Valladolid in January I585, his father being Hernando Tanego. He made his vows in the convent of
Portillo in i60o, and joining the first Philippine mission arrived at the islands in I606. There he was sent
immediately to the Zambales coast, where he founded
the village of Masinloc, from which as a center he
carried on his work. In I609 he was elected vicarprovincial, which office he kept until 1612. He was
elected vicar-provincial for the second time in I6i5;
and on the completion of that office in I618, being
elected procurator, he went to Spain for new missionaries, of whom he obtained a fine band, returning
to Manila in 1622. The following year he was
elected vicar-provincial for the third time, and in
1624 first definitor. The highest office of the province, namely, that of provincial, came to him in 1626
and at the end of his provincialate he asked permission to go to Japan, but in vain; he therefore con