of Tandag. In 1624 he was elected procuratol-general
of the Philippine province. He attempted in 1629 and 1630 to go
to Japan; but in the first year the vessel was wrecked, and in the
second the governor forbade the journey. He was sent finally to the
mission at Cuyo, but the troubles with the Moros compelled him to
flee. Reaching Manila, he refused the offer of the secretaryship to the
visitor-general, and the remainder of his life was spent in that city,
his death occurring in the year 1644 or 1651. Gaspar de Santa Monica
was a native of the city of Orihuela, in Valencia, his family name
being Padros. He took the habit in the convent at Valencia, November 1,
1613. He joined the mission organized by Andres del Espiritu Santo, and
arrived at Manila in 1622. The following year he was appointed prior
of the convent of Marivelez; and in 1624, when the first provincial
chapter of the order was held in the Philippines, he was elected
prior of the convent of Cuyo, where he suffered many hardships. He
became secretary to Andres del Espiritu Santo upon the election of
the latter to the provincialate in 1626; but, falling ill, he was
unable to perform the duties of that office and was made prior of
the convent of Calumpan, in 1627. In 1629 he was one of the religious
shipwrecked in the endeavor to reach Japan surreptitiously. He became
definitor of the province in 1632, and in 1638 prior of the convent
at Linao. On the completion of that office in 1642 it does not appear
that he filled other posts. He died in the city of Manila in 1651.]

[Chapter iv treats in great part of the life of Pedro de la
Madre de Dios. He was born at Salamanca in 1580, and his family
name was Lopez. He took the habit in the convent at Valladolid,
in 1605. Somewhere between the years 1612-1614 he was sent as
vicar-provincial to the Philippines, with the brief for the separation
of the Recollects from the regular Augustinians, conceded by the
pope. After the expiration of that office in 1615 he spent the time
until 1623 in work among the novices and as prior of the convents
of Manila and Cavite. July 1623 to February 1624, he acted again
as vicar-provincial. In the latter year he was chosen procurator
to Spain, and the representative of the Philippines to the general
chapter of the order to be held in 1627. Sailing from Manila in 1625,
the remainder of his life was spent in Spain in various employments and
in retirement. His death occurred between the y