inhuman murders the species of which they consider themselves as
individuals, adding to this that they consider it as an attention
paid to their religion, to take away the life of any Christian who
approaches their district, where they pay such adorations to their
deities, then one can conjecture the great risk that beset that
soldier of Jesus, when he attacked such an army of infernal furies,
in order to withdraw them from a darkness so dense into the refulgent
light of the Catholic religion.

986. But its good outcome deprived the action of the censure of
temerity, which showed that it was governed by a special motion of
the Holy Spirit, whose impulse at times trespassing the lines of what
the world calls prudence, causes one to undertake projects which
our finite reason qualifies as rashness. The fact is that when the
venerable father arrived at the dense part of a solitary thicket
in whose melancholy shades those Indians had gathered to worship
as a god one who is not a god, he met them with the qualities of
meek sheep, when he might have feared to find them like ferocious
wolves, who would consider it a sport of their cruelty to rend him
to pieces. Beyond any doubt the hand of God, who wished to preserve
the life of one who despised it for His sake, was in this; for since
the infernal fury with which the heathen clothe themselves on such
occasions is assured, one cannot attribute their gentleness on this
occasion to natural causes. That most zealous minister put his hand,
then, to the double-edged sword of the preaching, and fighting with
it according to his wont so skilfully, made himself master almost
without any resistance of those hearts which were filled with apostasy
and infidelity, setting up in them the banner of our holy Catholic
faith. The complete attainment of so famous a victory was retarded
somewhat, because of the outbreak of the insurrection of Pangasinan. In
him was verified what experience has always demonstrated, namely, that
a very quiet disposition is needed so that the divine word may be born
in souls by the faith. But at last when all the heads of that monstrous
hydra were cut off, the blessed father had the happiness to obtain
the fruit of his zeal by constructing a new village in the site called
Mangasin. That was the most suitable place in the island of Poro, and
was called by another name Cabarroyan. From the beginning he counted
eighty houses in it and a like number of families, all draw