nitor in
1614, as prior of Manila in 1618, and as provincial in 1623. He died
at the age of seventy-eight, on March 22, 1637. He compiled a grammar
and dictionary in Bisayan dialects. See Perez's _Catalogo_, pp. 53-55.
[26] For sketches of these religious, see Perez's _Catalogo_.
[27] Juan Enriquez was a professed religious of the Toledo
convent. After going to the Philippines he labored in San Pablo de
los Montes in 1607, in Taal in 1608, and in Malate in 1611. He was
definitor in 1617, and visitor and provincial in 1620. In 1625 he went
to Spain as procurator, and died there in 1631. See Perez's _Catalogo_,
p. 77.
[28] Fray Juan de Villalobos was a conventual in Panay in 1593,
prior of Santo Nino de Cebu in 1599, first prior of the convent of
Guadalupe in 1602 and 1605, and later visitor and definitor. He died
in 1620. See Perez's _Catalogo_, p. 45.
[29] Fray Pedro Garcia Serrano, a native of the town of Chinchon, in
the province of Madrid, took his vows in the province of Castilla. He
had considerable reputation as an orator, and was given the title
of master in sacred theology some time after his arrival at the
islands in 1613. He filled many posts in the order, among them that of
vicar-provincial, definitor (1629), and prior of Guadalupe (1624-1629),
as well as that of commissary of the Inquisition and _calificador_
of the Holy Office in the archbishopric of Manila. He died in Mexico
in 1631, while on a voyage to Spain, having been appointed definitor
of the general chapter and commissary-procurator. He wrote some moral
sermons in the Pampanga dialect, while exercising the care of missions
in that province. See Perez's _Catalogo_, p. 90.
[30] Fray Alonso Ruiz was a native of Coimbra, Portugal, and professed
in the Salamanca convent in 1574. He was minister of the village of
Aclan in 1602, and of San Nicolas de Cebu in 1607, sub-prior of the
convent of Manila and master of novitiates in 1611, definitor and
prior of Guadalupe in 1617, and prior of Taal in 1620. He afterward
served in a number of Pampanga villages, and died in that of Minalin
in 1640. See Perez's _Catalogo_, p. 70.
[31] Possibly an error for Jeronimo Cavero, who ministered in certain
Luzon villages from 1596 to 1611, and attained great fluency in the
Ilocan language. He became definitor, and examiner and president of the
provincial chapter of 1617. He died in 1622. See Perez's _Catalogo_,
p. 51.
[32] Guimaras, opposite Iloilo.--_Coco_.
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