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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume 32, 1640 / 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, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. cover

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume 32, 1640 / 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, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.

Chapter 51: Chapter XLI Father Fray Angel leaves the city of Ucheo for the town of Fuhan, trusting solely in God; the success of his journey.
By Diego Aduarte
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This volume concludes a Dominican provincial history that chronicles missionary work in the Philippine archipelago and adjacent regions. It traces the lives and labors of several friars, describing conversions, reported miracles and visions, emergency baptisms amid epidemics, internal elections and administrative matters, and the physical and spiritual hardships of mission life. It records escalating persecutions in Japan, orders for clergy expulsion, clandestine ministry, and many instances of suffering and martyrdom. The text is accompanied by editorial annotations, bibliographical notes, and facsimiles of maps and signatures that help anchor the narrative in contemporaneous documentary sources.

Chapter XLI

Father Fray Angel leaves the city of Ucheo for the town of Fuhan, trusting solely in God; the success of his journey.

[Father Fray Angel, knowing that there were some Christians in the village of Fuhan and the province of Funinchiu, decided to set out thither on foot. He met with no interference on the way. In Fuhan he found some Christians, and met Father Julio Aleni of the Society of Jesus. Like father Fray Angel, he was an Italian; and he showed the father much kindness. Here father Fray Angel made a number of conversions, and found everything promising for the future of Christianity in China. The Lord showed the father grace, for, though he was naturally weak, he received strength for many labors. He begged for a companion, saying in one of his letters which he wrote from Fuhan, December 24, 1632: “Laborers! laborers! laborers! for the harvest is ready and it is great.” There was sent him as companion father Fray Juan Baptista de Morales, a son of the convent of San Pablo de Ezija, for the province could spare no more.]