f Baco, where the corregidor was residing at
that time, although that convent was later moved to Calapan. Two
religious were placed there in residence, and they looked after the
spiritual administration in several rancherias. Those rancherias have
increased with the lapse of time to a great number of Christians, and
have become villages that are not to be despised, having been formed
anew by the zeal of our apostolic laborers. The villages comprehended
in that district in the year 1733 are the following: Calapan, which
is the chief one, where the convent is located; Baco, Suban, Ilog,
Minolo, and Camoron, which are annexed villages or visitas, as they
are called there. Our church of Calapan is enriched with an image
of Christ our Lord, which represents Him in His infancy; and on that
account it is called the convent of Santo Nino [i.e., Holy Child]. That
image is conspicuous in continual miracles and is the consolation of
all the Indians of Mindoro. For a long history might be written by
only relating the marvels which the divine power has worked by it;
now giving health to many sick unto death; now freeing villages from
locusts which were destroying the fields, now succoring not a few
boats which driven by violent storms were running down the Marinduque
coast, whose sailors were in the greatest danger of being drowned in
the water, or the ship of grounding on the shoals of the land.

803. [One miracle is related of a Recollect in Calapan who having
acquired two hundred pesos determined to send it home to Spain to his
mother who was very poor, without saying anything to the provincial
as he was in duty bound to do. Being very observant in his outward
duties, he said mass before the image just previous to sending the
money to America on a ship which appeared opportunely, but the image
turned its back on him. Thereupon, being convicted of sin, he burst
into tears, and was thereafter free from such temptations.]

804. The above case happened years after when the convent was
established in Calapan. Let us now examine other marvels, which
happened at Baco, near the beginning, which were of great use for
the extension of the Catholic name. The father definitor, Fray Diego
de la Madre de Dios, who was the founder of that house, was surely a
holy man, and was venerated as such in Manila. Notwithstanding that,
however, a corregidor took to persecuting him by word and deed. The
servant of God bore the personal insults with great