lome Blas Esterlich, was from Flanders. He was a confessor and
preacher in Manila, and ministered in the Ilocan villages of Bangui
(1633) and Agoo (1635), dying in 1640.

[74] For sketches of these friars, see Perez's _Catalogo_.

[75] Fray Nicolas de Herrera was a missionary in Sesmoan (1618), Lubao
(1623 and 1626), and Bacolor (1632). He was definitor in 1629, prior
of Manila in 1635, and president of the provincial chapter in 1638,
dying in 1647. See Perez's _Catalogo_, p. 89.

[76] Fray Martin de Errasti was a native of Vizcaya, and professed
in the convent of Burgos. After going to the Philippines, he became
missionary in Porac, Apalit, and Bacolor (1635). He acted as definitor
and prior of Manila. He was elected provincial in 1638, but died in
1639. See Perez's _Catalogo_, p. 93.

[77] Cristobal de Miranda was a missionary in the villages of Mexico
in 1614, and of Apalit, Betis, Sesmoan, Guagua, Minalin, Candaba,
Macabebe, and Bacolor until 1641. He was definitor in 1632 and died
in 1646. See Perez's _Catalogo_, p. 88.

[78] Fray Lorenzo (_not_ Alonso) Figueroa labored in the villages of
Caruyan, Paranaque (1620), Santa Cruz (1626), and Agoo (1626). He
was elected prior of the convent of Santo Nino de Cebu in 1629,
after which he was sent to the villages of Lipa, Bigaa, Malate,
Sala, Malalos, and San Pablo de los Montes (1653). His death is not
recorded. See Perez's _Catalogo_, p. 96.

[79] Doubtless masses for the deaths of Father Pedro Garcia and
Father Cabrera.

[80] Fray Pedro de la Pena was born in Burgos, and professed in the
convent of Badaya in 1599. He worked in the Ilocan villages of Bantay,
and Narvacan (1617). After laboring also in the villages of Apalit and
Macabebe (1626), he was chosen commissary-procurator to Madrid (1630),
dying in the following year, aboard ship. See Perez's _Catalogo_,
p. 86.

[81] St. Luke, i, 37.--Coco.

[82] Fray Pedro de Quesada, a native of Jaen, took his vows in the
province of Castilla. He was appointed preacher-general and reader of
theology in 1630, and labored afterward in the villages of Malolos
(1632), Lipa (1636), and Bulacan (1638). In 1639 he went to Spain
as procurator-commissary of Madrid and definitor-general; but the
intermediary chapter having annulled his appointment, he set out
again for the islands as president of a mission of religious, dying
in Mexico in 1645. See Perez's _Catalogo_, p. 107.

[83] Paul's Epistle to the Romans, viii, 37.--Co