imentel was born in Portillo, on May 30, 1612. In 1632 he
entered the Jesuit order, and eleven years later joined the Philippine
mission. He was a teacher in the college at Manila for two years,
and afterward was at the head of various Jesuit residences. He was
sent to Europe as procurator (about 1656?), and came back in 1666
with a band of missionaries; and afterward was three times rector of
St. Joseph college, and three times provincial (1670, 1675, 1687). He
died at San Miguel on July 5, 1689. (Murillo Velarde, fol. 356 b.)

[36] On account of a ranch which the college of San Ignacio at Manila
possesses in the land of Meybonga, not far from the said city--its name
being Jesus de la Pena, or Mariquina--the Society began to administer
the sacraments, establishing the mission village of Mariquina, or
Jesus de la Pena, by authority from Don Fray Pedro de Arce, bishop of
Zebu and apostolic ruler of the archbishopric of Manila, on April 16,
1630; this was confirmed by the vice-patron, Don Juan Nino de Tabora,
governor of these islands, on April 22, 1630. The said village was
cared for by the minister stationed in Santa Cruz, or by a father
sent by the rector of the college of Manila, who was the director of
the said village; for this no stipend was asked from his Majesty,
because the minister was not permanently established there, and
therefore the said college maintained him, without suspending, for
lack of a stipend, the ministry in the said village. In the year 1675,
the Society was confirmed in this administration by a royal decree,
dated July 26, on account of the Society's right to the said parish
having been disputed by the religious of St. Augustine, from November,
1669. In 1681, the number of parishioners having increased, it was
judged necessary to station a permanent minister there, for the better
administration of the sacraments, and to build a house and a larger
church; and, as it was thus necessary to incur larger expenses, the
Society asked, in 1685, that to this minister be given the stipend
which his Majesty assigns to the parish priests, in accordance with
the number of tributes. The fiscal of his Majesty replied that in
view of what the Society was accomplishing there, a suitable stipend
should be given. In the year 1686, the religious of St. Augustine
claimed that that Indian village belonged to them, as an annex to the
ministry of Pasig. The archbishop issued an act, on October 11, 1686,
in which, whi