lso possess another convent called San Francisco del Monte, one
legua from the city; and a hospital called San Lazaro, which they
administer near the village of Dilao, which belongs to the province
of Tondo; besides the villages and ministries of Sampaloc, Pandacan,
and Santa Ana de Zapa. In the province of Bulacan, they have the
convents and ministries of Polo, Meycauayan, and Bocaue, with several
visitas. In the province of Laguna de Bay, they have in charge the
ministries and convents of Morong, Baras, Tanay, Pililla, Mabitac,
Cabosan, Siniloan, Pangil, Paquil, Paete, Longos, Lucban, Cavinti,
Pagsanghan, Santa Cruz, Pila, and Mainit (where there is a hospital,
called Los Banos, because of the warm sulphur-charged waters in those
regions, for the cure of various ailments). In that same province
are the ministries and convents of Nagcarlang, Lilio, and Mahayhay;
and lastly, by cession of the Augustinian fathers, the villages of Bay,
and Binangonan, with the ranch of Angono. In the mountains of Daractan,
which extend from the lake of Bay to the east coast of the island
of Luzon, they have several visitas and missions. In the province of
Camarines, the convents and ministries of Naga, near the city of Nueva
Caceres, the seat of the vicar-provincial, together with Canaman,
Quipayo, Milaod, Minalambang, Bula, Bao, Naboa, Iraya, Buhi, Liban,
Polangui, Oas, Liyao, Guinobatan, Camarines, Cagsaua, and Ligmanan. In
the province of Tayabas, [the ministries and convents] of Pagbilao,
Sariaya, Lucban, Gumaca, Atimonan, Mayobac, and Macalilon. The missions
of Lupe and Ragay, in the mountains and along the coast of Bangon, and
another mission called Santa Cruz, in the mountains of Manguirin. In
that same province of Tayabas, in the mountains and along the coasts
of the opposite shore, are the ministries of Binangonan, Polo, Baler,
and Casiguran. In the province of Cagayan, the ministry of Palanan,
with a mission of Aetas and Irayas of those mountains.

Chapter V

Ministries of the Society of Jesus in these Filipinas Islands

After the preaching of the apostle of the Orient, St. Francis Xavier,
in these archipelagos, as far as the island of Mindanao and Japon
(as has been related already in its place), before the Spaniards
were established in these islands, the first fathers of the Society
of Jesus reached these islands by way of the west or by the Western
Indias, coming with the first bishop of the islands, his Excellency
D