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.

Table of Contents

• Contents of Volume XXXII     5
• Illustrations     7
• Preface     9
• Historia de la Provincia del Sancto Rosario de la Orden De Predicadores     17
  • History of the Dominican Province of the Holy Rosary     19
    • LXXI. The arrival at Manila of father Fray Luis, his assignment to Pangasinan and the events there     19
    • LXXII. Some special favors received by father Fray Luis from the Lord, and some temptations which he suffered from the enemy.     22
    • LXXIII. The fervor of spirit of father Fray Luis, and his expedition to China     24
    • LXXIV. The silence, occupation, and virtues of father Fray Luis, and his happy death     27
    • LXXV. The election as provincial of father Fray Miguel de San Jacintho, and the condition of the province and Japon.     30
    • LXXVI. The servant of God, Don Fray Diego de Soria, bishop of Nueva Segovia, and one of the founders of this province.     34
    • LXXVII. The personal habits of Don Fray Diego de Soria and other matters in regard to him up to his death.     39
    • LXXVIII. Father Fray Francisco Minaio and his death     41
  • Book Second of the History of the Province of the Holy Rosary     47
    • I. The sufferings of the religious in Japon in the persecution which arose against Christianity     47
    • II. Father Fray Francisco de San Joseph Blancas     51
    • III. Events in this province at this time     55
    • IV. The life and death of father Fray Bernardo de Sancta Cathalina, or Navarro     61
    • V. The election as provincial of father Fray Melchior Mançano, and the situation in Japon at this time.     67
    • VI. The great devotion in Japon to the rosary of our Lady; the death of the emperor, and the state of the church there.     70
    • VII. The expedition of father Fray Alonso Navarrete, vicar-provincial of our order in Japon, and father Fray Hernando de San Joseph, or Ayala, vicar-provincial of the order of our father St. Augustine, for the aid of the Christians of Omura.     71
    • VIII. The capture of the holy martyrs     72
    • IX. The death of the three holy martyrs     73
    • X. The virtues of these blessed fathers, their fitness to obtain the crown of martyrdom, and the fruits which followed therefrom.     74
    • XI. The state of affairs in Japon after the martyrdom of the saints Fray Alonso Navarrete and Fray Hernando de Ayala.     75
    • XII. The building of the church of Los Sanctos Reyes in the Parian     76
    • XIII. Some missions sent to various kingdoms     86
    • XIIII. The capture of father Fray Juan de Santo Domingo, and his happy death in prison in Japon     95
    • XV. The intermediate chapter, and the death of father Fray Juan de Leyva     96
    • XVI. Some very virtuous fathers who died at this time     105
    • XVII. The election as provincial of father Fray Miguel Ruiz, and events in the province at this time     110
    • XVIII. The voyage of the holy Fray Luis Flores to the kingdom of Japon     124
    • XIX. The many efforts made for the rescue of the prisoners without any good results, and rather to their cost; the martyrdom of the prisoners.     126
    • XX. The captivity of other religious in Japon     129
    • XXI. The arrest of the holy Fray Jacintho Orfanel; the narrowness of his prison, and the great miseries of it; his martyrdom, and the marvelous fruits which followed from his captivity.     132
    • XXII. The giving of the habit to three Japanese by the holy captives; and the martyrdom of the fathers Fray Francisco de Morales, Fray Alonso de Mena, Fray Angel Ferrer (or Orsuchi), Fray Jacintho Orfanel, Fray Joseph de San Jacintho, and two of those who had professed in prison (all members of the order), besides many others.     134
    • XXIII. The martyrdom of the holy Fray Thomas de Zumarraga, brother Fray Mancio de Sancto Thomas, and a Japanese; and those of other Japanese in Omura.     135
    • XXIV. A mission sent by the province to Japon, and the result of it     137
    • XXV. The harvest reaped in Japon by the holy father Fray Pedro Vazquez; his life and virtues     140
    • XXVI. A more detailed account of the imprisonment of the holy Fray Pedro Bazquez, the time while it lasted, and the sufferings which he endured in it; and finally his glorious martyrdom, in company with four other martyrs.     141
    • XXVII. The election as provincial of father Fray Bartholome Martinez, and the deaths of some religious     142
    • XXVIII. Father Fray Juan de Rueda and de los Angeles, who died a martyr     146
    • XXIX. The foundation of a church in the island of Hermosa and the holy deaths of some religious     152
    • XXX. The state of the province, and the persecution in Japon     161
    • XXXI. The state of affairs in Japon; and the martyrdom of father Fray Luis, Fray Mincio de la Cruz, Fray Pedro de Sancta Maria, and some other persons of the tertiary order of St. Dominic.     163
    • XXXII. The great persecution in Japon, and the care of the province to send ministers there     164
    • XXXIII. The martyrdom of the servants of God, Fray Domingo Castellet, Fray Thomas de San Jacintho, Fray Antonio de Sancto Domingo, and some persons of the tertiary order of St. Dominic.     166
    • XXXIV. The voyage in this year of religious of the province to Camboja, in the effort to convert it; and the progress of the conversion of the island of Hermosa.     167
    • XXXV. The foundation of the first church among the Indians of Tanchuy, a district of the island of Hermosa, and the events which happened among those Indians.     173
    • XXXVI. The election as provincial of father Fray Francisco de Herrera, commissary of the holy Inquisition; and the beginning of an account of father Fray Bartholome Martinez.     176
    • XXXVII. The virtues which God granted him, and particularly some in which he excelled; his labors and death.     177
    • XXXVIII. The death of father Fray Miguel Ruiz, and the state of affairs in Japon     179
    • XXXIX. The life and death of father Fray Matheo de Cobissa     183
    • XL. The entrance made from the island of Hermosa to the great kingdom of China by two fathers of St. Dominic.     185
    • XLI. Father Fray Angel leaves the city of Ucheo for the town of Fuhan, trusting solely in God; the success of his journey.     189
    • XLII. The lives and deaths of fathers Fray Marcos de Saavedra and Fray Juan Rodriguez     190
    • XLIII. A second expedition made by two fathers to the province of Sinay, otherwise known as Ytui, and the result of it.     192
    • XLIV. The life and death of father Fray Thomas Gutierrez, vicar provincial of the province of Ytuy     205
    • XLV. The election as provincial of father Fray Domingo Gonçalez, and the state of the province     216
    • XLVI. The holy Fray Jacintho de Esquivel or De el Rosario, martyred on the way to Japon; and his holy life.     221
    • XLVII. The martyrdom of the holy friar Fray Francisco de Sancto Domingo in the island of Hermosa, and the death of the venerable father Fray Angel de San Antonino in Great China.     224
    • XLVIII. The beginning of the conversion of the Mandayas, mountaineers of Nueva Segovia     226
    • XLIX. The beginning of the account of the glorious martyrdom of four illustrious martyrs—fathers Fray Jordan de Sant Estevan, Fray Thomas de San Jacintho, and two religious of our tertiary order in Japon.     240
    • L. The coming of the venerable father Fray Jordan de San Estevan to this province, and his entry into Japon.     242
    • LI. The capture and martyrdom of the fathers Fray Jordan de San Estevan, and Fray Thomas de San Jacintho.     243
    • LII. The glorious martyrdoms of the illustrious Marina and Magdalena, religious of the tertiary order     244
    • LIII. The condition of the Christian Church lately established by our religious in Great China     245
    • LIV. The discovery by the religious of many superstitions concealed by some new Christians     247
    • LV. The life of father Fray Luis Muro, and his martyrdom at the hands of heathen Indians in the island of Hermosa.     249
    • LVI. A new congregation of religious which was proposed in these islands at this time     251
    • LVII. The life and death of the venerable bishop Don Fray Diego Aduarte, a religious of this province     263
    • LVIII. Other voyages and sufferings of father Fray Diego Aduarte under the direction of his superiors and for the preaching of the gospel.     267
    • LIX. Other journeys of father Fray Diego in the service of the Lord, for the advancement of the conversions of these tribes.     270
    • LX. The glorious martyrdom of four religious of this province, and two laymen, their companions, in Japon.     284
    • LXI. The exercises with which the Lord prepared these saints for martyrdom     288
    • Letter written by his Majesty to the venerable and devout father provincial of the Order of St. Dominic of the Philipinas Islands.     295
• Bibliographical Data     299