tertiary order
at Sampaloc, the hospitium of San Pascual Bailon, the infirmary of
Santa Cruz of Laguna, a leper hospital in Camarines, the college
of Guinobatan, and the monastery of Santa Clara; and in Espana,
the colleges of Pastrana, Consuegra, Arenas de San Pedro, Puebla de
Montalban, Almagro, and Belmonte, with the residence of Madrid; also a
college in Roma--and a total of 475 religious, and 34 religious women.
The religious of the Order of St. Dominic, besides their missions of
China and Formosa, own in Manila the convent and church of St. Dominic,
the university of Santo Tomas, the college of Santo Tomas, that of San
Jose, and that of San Juan de Letran; the college of San Alberto Magno
in Dagupan, the vicariate of San Juan del Monte, and that of San Telmo
in Cavite; the beaterio of Santa Catalina de Sena in Manila, for girls;
that of Nuestra Senora del Rosario in Lingayen, that of Santa Imelda in
Tuguegarao, and that of Nuestra Senora del Rosario in Vigan, also for
the education of girls; and in Espana the two colleges of Santo Domingo
de Ocana and Santo Tomas de Avila--with a total of 528 religious.
The missionaries of the Society of Jesus own in Manila a central
mission house, the Ateneo [_i.e._, Athenaeum] Municipal, the normal
school, and a meteorological observatory. They administer 37 missions,
with 265 visitas or reductions, in Mindanao, Basilan, and Jolo. The
total number of Jesuits resident in Filipinas was only 164; but the
province of Aragon, of which the mission forms a part, owns several
training-houses, colleges, and residences in Espana, besides those
which it maintains in South America.
The fathers of the Mission, or those of St. Vincent de Paul, own the
house of San Marcelino in Manila, and the conciliar seminary of that
city, with those of Cebu, Jaro, and Nueva Caceres.
The Capuchin missionaries have the church and mission-house of Manila,
the mission of Yap in the western Carolinas, that of Palaos, that of
Ponape in the eastern Carolinas, and the procuratorial house of Madrid
[155]--the total number of their religious being 36.
The Benedictine missionaries occupy the central mission house of
Manila; the missions of Taganaan, Cantilan, Gigaquit, Cabuntog,
Numancia, and Dinagit, in Mindanao; and a college for missionaries
in Monserrat (Espana). There are 14 of them resident in these islands.
Lastly, there are, besides the religious who live in Filipinas,
several houses of religious
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