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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I7. Father Fray Juan Ruiz, Bisayan missionary
in the Bisayas for several years; and then our God
took him to Himself.
I8. This was father Fray Juan de Ocadiz, who
was hanged for the murder of our father Fray
Vicente. It would appear that that murder was
needful to him for his salvation, for his penance
during the entire time of his imprisonment was
incredible. And his preparation for death was
remarkable. It has been the Lord's will to have
given him His glory, since, to pardon one, He
wishes repentance alone. Si autem impius egeret
pcenitentiam ab omnibus peccatis suis, quee operatus
est... omnium iniquitatum ejus, quee operatus est, non recordabor.l6
When the violent murder of the provincial was
divulged, an auditor went to [the fathers of] St.
Augustine, by order of the royal Audiencia, to inquire into it. All the religious were assembled, and
when all were in the hall of his Paternity, the auditor ordered all of them to kiss the hand of the dead
provincial. On kissing it, father Fray Juan de
Ocadiz began to tremble, etc., and confessed his
guilt.
19. This was brother Fray Juan Bautista, a
native of Genova, but a devoted servant of God, as
he has proved in the time while he has lived in the
Filipinas Islands, in the confidential offices that the
order has entrusted to him.1
Our father visitor-general, seeing that many
religious were necessary, and that very few were
going to Manila, resolved to bestow some habits in
6 Ezekiel xviii, 21, 22. - Coco.
17 See Perez's Catdlogo for sketches of these religious.