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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CHAPTER SIXTH
The venerable sister Isabel, a beata, dies holily in the
faith in the province of Butuan
Only section: (Year 1646)
One of our Beatas, named Isabel, passed to the
better life this year in the village of Butuan of Filipinas. We know nothing else about her except that
she was converted to the faith by the preaching of
Ours when they entered that province. The Lord
illumined her so that she should leave the darkness
of their idolatries, and she was baptized and given
the name of Isabel. She produced great fruit in a
short time, for the hand of God is not restricted to
time limit. Seeing her so useful in the mysteries of
the Catholic religion, our religious sent her to be.
come a coadjutor and the spiritual mother of many
souls, whom she reduced to the faith and catechized thus gaining them for the Church.
She was sent to the villages where the devil was
waging his fiercest war and deceiving by his tricks,
so that she might oppose herself to him by her exemplary life and the gentleness of her instruction.
26 The following two sections are taken from the Historia de
los religiosos descalzos (Madrid, i68I) of Luis de Jesus, pp. 371 -373 -