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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arrived at his convent, and he received them with
great love, accommodated them in cells, set up beds
for them, and gave them medicines - assisting them
with the compassion of a father, to their consolation,
and with extreme charity aiding in their entertainment. One of those soldiers, who was named Juan
Gonzalez, had broken a leg, his body was full of
wounds and a poisoned arrow had pierced his loins.
When he was treated, he was so lifeless that all
thought that he had expired. The father prior was
not a little afflicted at that, for the man had not yet
been confessed, as the father had been assisting the
others. In that extremity the father applied to him
a picture of St. Nicholas of Tolentino, and at its
contact the dying man returned to his senses, confessed very slowly, and received the other sacraments
with fervor; and had even twenty-four hours left in
which to bewail the carelessness of his life, as he did.
All held that event as a miracle worked by St. Nicholas, for whom the sick man and the religious had
great devotion.
265. That fatal news having reached the city of
Manila, a general revolt was feared as in the former
year of 1631, when our churches were burned, our
convents pillaged, our sacred images profaned, and
our ministers seized and killed. In consideration of
that, Governor Don Diego Faxardo sent Captain
Gregorio Dicastillo to Tandag with a small band of
Spanish infantry to join Bernabe de la Plaza, alcaldemayor and captain of that fort, so that they might try
all means to reduce the insurgents. They went to
Butuan where they established their military headquarters. A general pardon was published with the
warning that those who did not submit would bring