were conserved in the convent at Cebu.

Fray Vicente Sepulveda was a native of Castilla, and professed
in that province. In the Philippines he became chief sacristan of
the Manila convent, and learned thoroughly the Pampanga dialect,
ministering in that province for five years. He was definitor in 1611,
and provincial in 1614. His term was one of discord because of his
rigorous enforcement of the laws passed by the father visitor. In 1617,
he was chosen to fill out the term of provincial, that office becoming
vacant by the death of Jeronimo de Salas. He was killed August 21,
1617, as the result of a conspiracy of brother Augustinians who were
opposed to him.

Fray Diego Gutierrez was a native of Sigueenza in the province of
Guadalajara, and professed in the convent of Agreda in 1574. He went
to the Philippines in 1578, where he had charge of various missions
in Luzon. He served as definitor during the chapters of 1578 and
1590. His death occurred at Lubao in 1613.

Fray Antonio de Porras was born in Sevilla and professed in the convent
of that city. He arrived at Manila in 1598, where he exercised the duty
of master of novitiates in the convent. He went to Bisayas instead
of Japan which was his chosen field, working there from 1600 to 1639
(the year of his death). He held several important ecclesiastical
offices in the Bisayas.

See Perez's _Catalogo_.

[23] Definitors are the fathers who compose the council of the
provincial. Aditos are those who are to be substituted for any
definitor because of his death.--_Coco_.

[24] Fray Fernando Becerra was born in Valladolid and took his vows
in the convent of Salamanca, where he read sacred theology. On going
to the Philippines he was missionary in Bantay in 1611, preacher and
reader in 1613, provincial secretary in 1614, missionary at Hagonoy in
1615, at Pasig, 1617, 1620, and 1623, after having served as visitor
and definitor. He was elected provincial by acclamation in 1626,
but died July 31 of the same year. He left several writings. See
Perez's _Catalogo_, pp. 81, 82.

[25] Fray Alonso Mentrida, an illustrious Bisayan missionary and a
noted writer, was born in the city of Mentrida, and took his vows in
the convent of Casarrubios in 1590, where he became reader for some
time, later exercising the same duty at Manila and Lubao until he went
to the Bisayas, where most of his work thereafter lay, although he
ministered in some of the Luzon missions. He served as defi