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. 13]

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taught her many things, and bade her instruct the
people therein. The same father, as soon as he became aware of this, sought to undeceive her, enjoining her not to repeat those things to any one. But she
paid no heed to this, and assembled secretly, at night,
a number of persons; and, in order that they might
go more willingly, she said that the father had told
her to proceed. In this way she persevered in making known her fancies and illusions. Those who
were present, noticing that her method of instruction
and speech was similar to that employed by the
priestesses of the idols when they are possessed by the
demon - making a thousand gestures and movements
like those of a madman or deranged person (which
was the method formerly employed by the devil in
making answers through the mouths of the catalonans)-hastened to give information of this proceeding. The father, learning for the second time of
this, which was again taking place, assembled in the
church the people who had heard this woman speak;
and, showing them what it really was, undeceived
them, pointing out the falsity of all those things, and
the wiles of the devil. By these means an evil was
corrected which doubtless would have been very
great if so timely and appropriate a remedy had not
been applied. In another instance a poor fellow was
relieved by an Agnus Dei8 which one of our brethren
gave him. The latter had sent some Indians to cut
grass, and one of them fled inland, among the mountains, as if terrified and beside himself; and wan" The figure of a lamb stamped on the wax which remains
from the paschal candles, and solemnly blessed by the pope on the
Thursday after Easter, in the first and seventh years of his pontificate." (Addis and Arnold's Catholic Dictionary, pp. 17, I8.)