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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the Calamianes, and prior of Cavite and Manila.
Death came to him in the convent of Bagumbaya in
1652. Antonio de San Agustin was a native of
Manila (being born about I592), where he professed. In I634 he obtained permission to go to the
Japanese mission, but the Chinese who had been
hired to take them failed to fulfil their contract. In
the great Chinese revolt of I639 he acted as minister
to the Zambal archers in the Spanish army. He
served in various capacities, among them being the
office of definitor. His death occurred in I652.]
[Chapter vii treats of the lives of Onofre de la
Madre de Dios and Augustin de San Pedro, the
famous "Padre Capitan." The first was the son of
Joseph Boquet, and was born in Perpinan in 1584,
and professed in the convent of Zaragoza, March I6,
i606. Joining the Philippine mission, he reached
those islands in 1620, where he was immediately sent
to the new missions in the south of the archipelago,
with the appointment of prior of Cebu. In 1624 he
was elected first provincial of the order in the Philippines, serving in that office for two years, during
which time he visited his province at the risk of
capture from both Dutch and Moros. After the
expiration of his term he asked and obtained permission to go to the Calamianes, and worked faithfully
in the island of Culion, where he mastered the
language. In 1627 he was sent to Spain as procurator, but did not return thence, as he was elected
provincial of the province of Aragon. His death
occurred in the convent of Calatayud in Spain, in
1638 (reported wrongly to have occurred at Barcelona in I653, as he was confused with another religious of the same name). "Padre Capitan," the son