at Manila, so that it was able to attend better to
its many obligations of choir, study, and infirmary, and those of
so important a community. Our father had the good fortune also to
receive a very distinguished contingent of religious in the second
year of his term. They were brought by father Fray Juan de Tapia,
who, as we have said above, was sent by our father Fray Juan Enriquez
as procurator of the province. The religious were received with open
arms; for the province was now in need of laborers, as the country
was but little suitable to sustain life--especially among young men,
who, as the blood boils in so warm a land, fall sick easily and die.

The religious who came in that year of 1624 are as follows:

1. Father Fray Juan de Tapia, their superior and commissary.

2. Father Fray Francisco Villalon, a reader, a Castilian.

3. Father Fray Sebastian del Rio, a preacher, a Castilian.

4. Father Fray Diego de Ordas, a preacher, a Castilian.

5. Father Fray Martin Claver, an Arragonese, a preacher, and apostolic
notary.

6. Father Fray Francisco Barela, a reader, a Castilian.

7. Father Fray Juan de Guevara, a priest, from Andalucia.

8. Father Fray Francisco de Portillo, a preacher, from Andalucia.

9. Father Fray Miguel de Penafiel, a priest, a Castilian.

10. Father Fray Fulgencio Garcia, a preacher, a Castilian.

11. Father Fray Diego Solis, a preacher, a Castilian.

12. Father Fray Rodrigo Angel, a priest, a Castilian, and apostolic
preacher.

13. Father Fray Alonso de Salazar, a preacher, a Castilian.

14. Father Fray Pedro de Herrera, a reader, who returned with the
habit.

15. The father master, Fray Teofilo Mascaros, from Valencia, a
professor, and vicar-provincial for Mallorca.

16. Father Fray Juan Bautista, a preacher, from Valencia.

17. Father Fray Luis Ronquillo, an eloquent preacher, a Castilian,
and procurator at that time of Arenas.

18. Father Fray Andres de Fuentes, a preacher, a Castilian.

19. Father Fray Juan de Loza, a preacher, from Andalucia.

20. Father Fray Pedro de las Marinas, a priest and a preacher,
a Castilian.

21. Father Fray Cristobal de Tapia, a brother, a creole.

22. Father Fray Melchor de Mosabel, a preacher, a Castilian. [61]

The father provincial, well-pleased with so fine a company [of
religious], divided them among the provinces. He sent the father
reader, Fray Francisco de Villalon, [62] to read in Manila, and the
father did that very satisfa