e privileges granted are absolution from reserved cases, commutation
of vows, exemption from abstinence and fasts, and so on. In former ages
the alms thus contributed were employed in battles against infidels and
heretics. The document empowering the recipient of the above favors
to make use of them must be printed on stamped paper, and sealed and
signed by the commissary-general apostolic delegated therefor by the
Holy See. The dispensation must be renewed yearly. Moroni--_Dizionario_
(Venezia, 1840), v, 283-285--states that, from the revenue thus
received from the Crusade sales annually, the following amounts are
turned over to the Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul in the Vatican,
for its support, viz.: by Spain, $12,000; by Portugal, $4,000; by
Brazil, $2,000; by Naples, about $700. (See Ferraris--_Bibliotheca_,
art. "Bulla Cruciatae.")--_Rev. T.C. Middleton_, O.S.A.

[34] Another appellation of the diocese of Nueva Segovia, which
comprised the province of Cagayan.

[35] This was Fray Pedro de Agurto, bishop of Cebu; his official
appellation in the text is derived from the name of the capital city
of Cebu. Agurto was a native of Mexico; he became a friar in the
Augustinian order, in which he filled many important posts. He took
possession of his diocese of Cebu on October 14, 1598, and died at
Cebu on the tenth anniversary of that day (1608).

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