FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   99   100   101   102   103   104   105   106   107   108   109   110   111   112   113   114   115   116   117   118   119   120   121   122   123  
124   125   126   127   128   129   130   131   132   133   134   135   136   137   138   139   140   141   142   143   144   145   146   147   148   >>   >|  
at expedition could not have been for the best, for the Lord proceeded to defeat it, by allowing their champan to be wrecked. Afterward, although they bought another in China (or rather in Ilocos), it had no better success. Ours spent more than five hundred pesos. The father reader, Fray Pedro de Quesada, [82] and father Fray Agustin de Chauru went. The sufferings of the religious from storms, rains, roads, and famines would not be believed. It seems that they can say with St. Paul: _Omnia superamus propter eum qui dilexit nos._ [83] They had to return because their superiors thus ordered, for in any other way they would not have done it; as they know very well how to suffer with Christ and for Christ, whose hardships were sweet to them, as to another St. Paul: _Mihi autem absit gloriari nisi in cruce Domini nostri Jesu Christi._ [84] That same year certain splendid feasts were celebrated in Manila for the holy martyrs of Japon who were canonized by his Holiness Pope Urban VII. There were twenty-one of them. Three were dogicos of the Society; the others belonged to the order of our father St. Francis. The religious marched in glittering vestments, all at the cost of the pious and religious inhabitants of Manila. The orders invited one another. There was a general procession in which the altars were excellent. As for that of our house, if it were not the best one, none of the others were ahead of it. It is certain that the dances, comedies, and the other things which made the festival magnificent, could have been envied by the best cities of Espana, to the honor and glory of its sons; for they have so pacified this earth that even at the limits of the world may be seen so many grandeurs to the honor and glory of the Author of all. Of this not a little redounds to the Catholic sovereigns of Espana; for by their expenses of men and money the banners of the Church have floated over the most remote and unknown parts of the world. Our kings of Espana deserve much, no doubt, since God has made use of them for so great affairs in His service. Governor Don Juan Nino de Tabora sent Captain Juan Bautista, who had married one of his servants, to the fort and presidio of Caragan. He was a very energetic and courageous youth, as he had proved on all opportunities that arose--both in that presidio, where he made many successful expeditions, and in other places where he had been sent. He had been badly wounded in Jolo. When he behe
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   99   100   101   102   103   104   105   106   107   108   109   110   111   112   113   114   115   116   117   118   119   120   121   122   123  
124   125   126   127   128   129   130   131   132   133   134   135   136   137   138   139   140   141   142   143   144   145   146   147   148   >>   >|  



Top keywords:

religious

 

father

 

Espana

 
presidio
 
Christ
 

Manila

 
grandeurs
 

Author

 

champan

 

limits


wrecked
 

Catholic

 

Church

 

floated

 

banners

 
sovereigns
 

expenses

 

redounds

 

pacified

 
dances

comedies

 
things
 

excellent

 

festival

 

remote

 

bought

 

magnificent

 
envied
 

cities

 

Afterward


courageous

 

proved

 

energetic

 

servants

 

proceeded

 

Caragan

 

opportunities

 

wounded

 

places

 

expedition


successful

 

expeditions

 

married

 

Bautista

 

altars

 

deserve

 
affairs
 

Tabora

 

defeat

 

Captain