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]

ROYAL AID FOR JESUITS ASKED BY
MANILA CABILDO
Sire:
This city of Manila has informed your Majesty
on other occasions how the Order of the Society of
Jesus, which came to these islands many years ago
with an ardent and apostolic zeal for the greater
service of our Lord and that of your Majesty, has
been employed in the conversion of souls; and that it
has made and makes use of various means extraordinarily and especially efficacious to allure souls to the
true knowledge of the matters of our holy Catholic
faith, as experience has proved and proves daily.
Their modest prudence and their admirable example of life and morals have verily aided in thatqualities which, resplendent in them, as is right, our
Lord has permitted to shine out with great profit in
the missions that they have in charge in these remote
islands, besides the great edification that they cause
in this city by their holy and excellent instruction.
We say the same in this letter, and, in particular,
that the said order, recognizing its extremely great
need of religious, has determined to send at the
present time Father Diego Patifio as their procu8 Diego Patifio was born June I, 1598, at Tarancon, in the
diocese of Cuenca, and entered his novitiate March 22, 1613.