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y leguas, in the manner that we have seen. Thence he went to Madrid, and was given favorable audience; and everything that he petitioned was conceded to him. But when twenty religious had been assembled, although they were even about ready to sail in the fleet that was being sent with reenforcements to the Malucas, the father's luck turned against him with the order that was received, for the boats that were ready not to sail. Consequently, he was accommodated on the fleet of Nueva Espana, but with very few religious. However they proved to be many, because of the lack of religious in the ministries and convents of the Indias.... General History of the Discalced Religious of St. Augustine By Fray Luis de Jesus [42] Decade Fourth Chapter First _The Augustinian Reform is erected, by pontifical favor, into a congregation, divided into provinces, and governed by a vicar-general._ [The first eleven sections of this chapter relate to affairs in Spain, and contain matters touching the order at large, as well as the affairs of various districts, and others pertaining to the lives of various religious of the order. The balance of the chapter deals with Philippine matters, as follows.] _Year 1621_ Sec. XII _Foundation of the convent of Zibu in Filipinas_ During this year of twenty-one, when our discalced order was erected into a congregation in Espana, the number of our houses in the Filipinas Islands was increased by the efforts of the zeal of the religious who were attending therein to the service of God and the welfare of so many souls, who were in need of ministers to lighten them with the divine word upon the pathway of the Lord. Sovereign Providence, then, arranged that our discalced should have a convent in that island of Zibu. It has been a station for the entrance of the publication of the faith of Christ our Lord to many distant provinces of barbarous and blinded people. The famous Magallanes discovered it in the year 1521. It has a circumference of less than one hundred leguas. Its inhabitants are called Pintados, because they have various designs on their bodies, which they make with iron and fire. They were formerly regarded as lords and chiefs of the other neighboring provinces, for they made themselves feared by their great valor. Adelantado Miguel Lopez de Legaspi gained it by force of arms from its king Tupas in the year 1575 [_sic_], and founded there the city of Nombre d
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