at the distance is at least twenty leguas. That
distance must be made over troublesome seas, for the winds are not
always favorable, so that one can only occasionally favor or console
the other. It is a mercy of God that zeal for the conversion of souls
has penetrated all, so that they put away their own welfare, relief,
and consolation for those of others."

270. That section proves, first, the care of the superiors in aiding
to pacify the Indians; secondly, that, to maintain them in peace,
one cannot accomplish so much by the severity of punishment as
by the mildness and gentleness of love; thirdly, the vast amount
of hardship that those poor ministers suffer. I must only add now
that some who had but little fear of God, seeing that the Indians
in Tandag had become quiet through the efforts of father Fray Pedro
de San Joseph Roxas, ascribed the sedition of Linao to father Fray
Agustin de Santa Maria. No investigation was made in order to give
the lie to the enormity of that falsehood, for he was purified from
that accusation by the blood from his veins, and because Heaven itself
gave some more than ordinary testimonies of his innocence. I am going
to mention them by compiling a treatise on his life.

[Section viii treats of the life of father Fray Augustin de Santa
Maria. He was born in Macan of Portuguese parents, and entered
the Recollect order. After being ordained as a priest, he was sent
to Caragha to learn the language of the natives, where he labored
diligently. Some years later he was sent to Linao, where he was killed
by the insurgents, May 16, 1651. His body, after being treated with
indignities by the natives, was finally buried by a pious native
woman. The section and chapter close with the recitation of several
miraculous occurrences.]

CHAPTER II

Life of the venerable father Fray Francisco de la Resurreccion;
and other events that happened in the year 1651.

[Section vi is the only part of this chapter referring to the
Philippines.]

Sec. VI

The eleventh mission goes from Espana to the Philipinas Islands

328.... Our holy province of Philipinas was burning with the most
ardent desire to enlighten the wretched Indians with the rays of
the faith; but it found itself opposed by contrary winds; these
blowing forcibly against the four corners of the house (as happened
there with Job), God proved it in patience. The church and a great
portion of the convent of the city of Manila had be