the government service at Manila. A Manobo chief, named Dabao,
fans the flame of discontent among the converted natives of Linao,
and by a stratagem brings conspirators into the fort, who kill nearly
all the Spaniards. Troops are sent to that region who punish severely
even the natives who surrender; and the people, although overawed,
are filled with resentment. The Recollect missionaries do much to
aid the natives, overlooking the fact that the latter had killed one
of those fathers; and one of them, "Padre Capitan," secures an order
from the Audiencia liberating all the Indians who had been enslaved
in consequence of the above revolt. This is followed by a sketch
of Fray Santa Maria's life; he was slain by the insurgents in that
same year. The writer recounts the difficulties met by the Recollect
province of Filipinas, and the coming to Manila (1652) of a body of
Recollect missionaries. The lives of many of these are sketched.

Considerable space is devoted to the subjection of religious to the
episcopal visitation, when they act as parish priests. Santa Theresa
describes the plan on which the missions have always been administered
in the Philippines by the various orders, and their relations to the
diocesan authorities. His account is a brief for the orders in their
controversy with the bishops over this question of visitation, and
presents the main points in its history; he writes it for the purpose
of refuting the slanders that have been current in Europe regarding the
attitude of the orders toward the diocesans, and discusses at length
the arguments against the episcopal visitation of the regulars in
parishes. These are advanced in behalf of all the orders in general,
and then the writer adduces special reasons, which concern the
Recollects in this matter. He enumerates the villages administered
by that order in different islands, and the spiritual conquests
made by his brethren; in their missions the number of Christians
has been steadily increasing, and the hostile heathen element much
reduced. Santa Theresa relates the dangers and sufferings experienced
by the Recollects in their missions, which lie on the very frontier
toward the Moro pirates; many of these devoted missionaries have even
lost their lives in the Moro raids. Have not these religious, then,
deserved the exemption from episcopal supervision that was granted
to the religious in Nueva Espana? Moreover, the missions need more
laborers than can be sup