professed as a Dominican
there, October 14, 1659. Refusing the offer of a college education
in Alcala de Henares, he went to the Philippines, after teaching
philosophy for a time at Mexico. Reaching Manila in December 1666,
he taught philosophy until the following year, when he was assigned to
the province of Bataan, at the convent of Oriong, which was declared
independent of Abucay in that same year. Three of his five years
there he acted as vicar. From Oriong he went to Samal, and thence to
Abucay in 1675. Somewhat later he was sent to Balacbac, but remained
there but a short time because of the complaints of the Recollects,
who claimed that the Dominicans were usurping their territory. In 1677
he was appointed vicar of Abucay, where his capacity for work and his
zeal were conspicuous. In 1678 he was appointed vicar of Binondoc,
remaining there one year. When the Dominicans were given charge of
the province of Zambales in 1679, he was made vicar of that whole
district. He was conspicuous throughout the province for his efforts
in destroying idol worship, and his opposition to that and all manner
of vices finally ended in his murder, as related in the text. He died
on November 15, 1683. He was the author of a relation on the customs
and superstitions of the Zambals, which existed in the Dominican
archives at Manila. See Resena biografica, ii, pp. 34-43.

[76] Juan Rois (Roes, Ruiz) was a Galician, and professed in the
Dominican convent of Lugo, September 2, 1679. Arriving at the
Philippines that same year, he was assigned in 1680 to the house
at Masinloc, and in 1682 to that at Nueva Toledo. In 1684 he was
again assigned to Masinloc, and in 1686 became vicar of Paynaven and
vicar-provincial of Zambales. He was sent to the Batanes Islands with
Father Mateo Gonzalez, in 1688, where he died that same year from the
unhealthfulness of the region and his hardships. See Resena biografica,
ii, pp. 216, 217.

[77] Possibly the agos-os, or Ficus pungens, which is used occasionally
in house construction. See Official Handbook of Philippines, p. 341;
and Ahern's Important Philippine Woods (Forestry Bureau, Manila,
1901), p. 8.

[78] See Salazar's Historia, pp. 275-313, for the Dominican account
of the missions of Zambales, the incidents of Calignao, and the life
of Father Domingo Perez. Concepcion evidently had before him this
account in compiling his own.

[79] Juan Peguero, O.P., was born in Estremadura, and professed in th