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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mulattoes and those of other races. At present those
priests are Fathers Antonio Juan Sana, Jose Pimentel, Juan Bautista Suredo, Francisco Manuel.
In the village of San Miguel, which is inhabited
by Tagalog Indians, is Father Magino Sola.
In the village of Santa Cruz, which is inhabited
by Christian Chinese, mestizos, free negroes, and
Tagalogs, are two priests, namely, Fathers Francisco
Ferrer and Ambrosio de la Cruz.
The village of San Pedro, where Indians, Chinese,
and mestizos who work in the surrounding country
congregate, has Father Francisco Colin.
In the residence of Antipolo, where there are
other villages - namely, Antipolo, Taytay, and Baras,
with four visitas in the mountains-there have always been three priests. At present there are two,
namely, Fathers Luis Espinelli and Ygnacio Zapata.
In the residence of Silang reside three priests,
namely, Fathers Ygnacio del Monte, Diego de Sanabria, and Juan de Esquerra. They have charge of
three villages, namely, Silang, Yndan, and Maragondon, and their visitas.
In Cavite, the port of Manila, and in Cavite el
Viejo, Fathers Andres de Ledesma and Juan Lopez
attend to all the people of every class.
There are two fathers in four settlements of the island of Marinduque, namely, Fathers Luis Pimentel
and Juan de Espinosa.
BISHOPRIC OF CEBU, OR OF SANTISIMO NOMBRE
DE JESUS
In various islands of the bishopric of Cebu there
are fifty priests of the Society of Jesus, in the following residences and villages.