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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4. Fray Nicolas de Herrera, a preacher, and a
prominent religious.
5. Fray Crist6bal de Miranda. He was the one
who, together with the master, Fray Pedro Garcia,
refused to disembark. That religious has been very
useful.
6. Father Fray Hernando de Aguilar, a very
honored religious.
7. Father Fray Bartolome de Salcedo.
8. Father Fray Jer6nimo de Oro.
9. Father Fray Antonio de los Santos.
Io. Father Fray Juan Cabello.
I. Father Fray Juan de Pareja Mejia, very
skilled in the Ilocan tongue. I mean that the following year, when the father master went, he again sent
his associate, Fray Lucas de Atienza, with some
religious whom he found from the other companies
whom I have already named, some of them being in
my company.
Others were Fray Juan de Mena and Fray Lucas
de Rivera.26
With this the government of our father Fray
Miguel Garcia was, we might say, fortunate; for he
found himself with two companies, all of whom,
with the half company, numbered more than forty
religious. With that number he was able to supply
the missions which now were suffering for the need
of workers. He was able to add new strength to the
house at Manila, so that the choir could be assured -
which is, as one might say, the fort of the province,
where prayer is offered to God day and night for the
needs of the province.. There they gather those who
find that they have but little strength in the ministry,
26 For sketches of these religious, see Perez's Catdlogo.