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. 24]

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hibit him who presides from becoming provincial.
He reached Mejico, although without that so notable
ship-load, which he failed to bring, because of
various casualties; with him came, however, one who
was sufficient to render that vessel glorious, and even
the entire province. This was the holy martyr, Fray
Hernando de San Jose.7 Together with him came
father Fray Hernando de Morales, father Fray
Felipe Gallada, father Fray Pedro del Castillo,
father Fray Martin de San Nicolas,8 all from
7Fray Hernando de San Jose, the Japanese martyr, whose
family name was Ayala, was born at Vallesteros, in 1575, and took
his vows-in the Augustinian convent of Montilla, May 19, I593.
He arrived in the Philippines in August, 1604, and was soon sent
to Japan, whence he returned in 1607 to Manila as procurator.
On his return to Japan, he labored in various places, and founded
the convent at Nagasaki, of which he was made prior in I613.
He was martyred June I, I617. See Diaz's Conquistas (Valladolid, 1890), pp. 76-103.
8 Fray Hernando Morales, a native of Montilla, in the province
of C6rdoba, professed in the C6rdoba convent, and on his arrival
at the Philippines was sent to labor among the Aetas in Panay.
He was minister of Sibucao in I6II, and of Laglag in I618, in
which year he took charge of San Nicolas de Cebu, going later to
Dumalag. He died in the last place in 1647.
Fray Felipe Tallada was born in Estepa, in the province of
Sevilla. Professing in the city of Sevilla, he was sent to the
Philippines, where he labored in the province of Pampanga at
various periods from 6o05 to 1645. He was definitor and
examiner in 1617, and procurator to Spain and Rome in I618.
His death occurred in Betis in 1645. He wrote a life of St.
Nicholas of Tolentino in the Pampanga dialect.
Fray Pedro del Castillo became a conventual of Pototan in
x605, and was minister of Dingle in 161i and 1633, of Jaro in
16I4, of Laglag in 1617, and of San Nicolas de Cebu in I62I.
He was also subprior of the convent of San Pablo in Manila in
1623, and minister of Santa Cruz in Ilocos the same year; was
procurator-general; and exercised the care of souls in Bacarra in
1626, and in Purao in 1629, dying in 1642.
Fray Martin de San Nicolas was a native of Osma, and made
his profession in the convent of Puebla de los Angeles. He was a
missionary in Maluco and Japan for some years. While vicar at