Hernando de San Jose, the Japanese martyr, whose family
name was Ayala, was born at Vallesteros, in 1575, and took his vows
in the Augustinian convent of Montilla, May 19, 1593. He arrived in
the Philippines in August, 1604, and was soon sent to Japan, whence
he returned in 1607 to Manila as procurator. On his return to Japan,
he labored in various places, and founded the convent at Nagasaki,
of which he was made prior in 1613. He was martyred June 1, 1617. See
Diaz's _Conquistas_ (Valladolid, 1890), pp. 76-103.

[8] Fray Hernando Morales, a native of Montilla, in the province
of Cordoba, professed in the Cordoba convent, and on his arrival at
the Philippines was sent to labor among the Aetas in Panay. He was
minister of Sibucao in 1611, and of Laglag in 1618, in which year he
took charge of San Nicolas de Cebu, going later to Dumalag. He died
in the last place in 1647.

Fray Felipe Tallada was born in Estepa, in the province of
Sevilla. Professing in the city of Sevilla, he was sent to the
Philippines, where he labored in the province of Pampanga at various
periods from 1605 to 1645. He was definitor and examiner in 1617,
and procurator to Spain and Rome in 1618. His death occurred in
Betis in 1645. He wrote a life of St. Nicholas of Tolentino in the
Pampanga dialect.

Fray Pedro del Castillo became a conventual of Pototan in 1605, and
was minister of Dingle in 1611 and 1633, of Jaro in 1614, of Laglag in
1617, and of San Nicolas de Cebu in 1621. He was also subprior of the
convent of San Pablo in Manila in 1623, and minister of Santa Cruz
in Ilocos the same year; was procurator-general; and exercised the
care of souls in Bacarra in 1626, and in Purao in 1629, dying in 1642.

Fray Martin de San Nicolas was a native of Osma, and made his
profession in the convent of Puebla de los Angeles. He was a missionary
in Maluco and Japan for some years. While vicar at Guimbal in 1617,
he accompanied the troops on an expedition against the Moros of
Mindanao. He died at Manila in 1630.

See Perez's _Catalogo_.

[9] Fray Esteban Carrillo was a native of the city of Ecija and
made his profession in the Cordoba convent, where he obtained
a professorship. On going to the Philippines he spent four years
among the highlands of Ilocos. He was preacher-general (1602-1609),
provincial secretary (October 31, 1603), prior of Manila (December 24,
1603), definitor (1605), and procurator-commissary to Madrid (1607). He
was one of the fo