le from all human subjection, and even from
divine law, without caring greatly for their own spiritual interests,
but each one going at will to his rancheria or field where it is not
easy for the father minister to visit them or assist them with the
holy sacraments during their sicknesses. For that reason all hell is
conjured against the teacher of the doctrine, if he tries to place
such reductions into effect, from which many spiritual interests would
follow. That venerable father suffered so much with his undertaking
that he caused universal wonder that it did not cost him his life,
and the worst thing was that he could not see it accomplished.

1122. Not only in this, but also in other projects of known utility,
did he have much to endure and much from which to gather merit. With
the zeal of Elias did he relentlessly persecute divine offenses,
while he at the same time loved the persons most especially. It
was the same for him to discover any trace of superstition or the
slightest vestige of the badly extinguished infidelity, and to fly to
its destruction with all his power. Amid continual risks of losing his
life, he exercised his gigantic charity for many years in directing the
souls of those islands to God, without any fear of death whose scythe
he saw upon him many times. The Moros with their stealthy attacks,
the infidels or apostates with open malice, and the evil Christians
with their subterfuges and deceits made him almost continually suffer
for justice. But he worked on manfully as one who had the refuge of
his life in God, and consoling his weakened heart with the divine
grace he supported the persecutions from which the Lord wove him
a crown. In the above-named village a chief Indian named Canaman
irritated by the attempted reduction, and because the father checked
him publicly for a certain scandalous concubinage, raised his head in
open mutiny. With many followers he sought the father and persecuted
him in order to deprive him of life. At that revolution the venerable
religious was sorely grieved, and it was considered as a special
prodigy that he could escape from so sacrilegious hands. Finally, for
the same reason another Indian of the village of Ticao (exasperated by
the just reprehension and punishment which that famous minister had
applied to him as an indispensable medicine for his faults) caused
him to be the holocaust of his burning zeal for the good of souls,
by the hidden method of poison, thro