begun to be put into operation;
and although we have not yet been able to get detailed information of
the laborers, who were employed in it, on account of which we cannot
place their names in this history, we shall have the consolation of
knowing that they will not be omitted from the book of life. It is
certain that all three religious conspired together in bringing to the
delicious net of the Church those misguided souls, and they shirked
no toil that might help in their object. They made raid after raid
into those mountains; one from Catel, one from Carhaga, and one from
Bislig, penetrating to their highest peaks, and their deepest valleys
in all their extent from the promontory of Calatan nearly to the cape
called San Agustin. All three of them at the same time were careful to
assist the Christians in the spiritual administration. They preached,
catechized, attracted the people by argument, by art, by prudence. And
as some truce occurred in the war with the Moros at that time, and
as they obtained at the same time a very Christian alcalde-mayor who
aided them and caused all his subordinates to aid them in so holy zeal,
so much fruit was obtained that when the father provincial went on
his visit in February 1673, he found that they had already baptized
more than three hundred adults without reckoning those who had been
purified in the waters of grace in sickness and had immediately
died. The latter were as many as one hundred counting great and small.

608. Thus did the above-mentioned father provincial, Fray Juan de San
Phelipe, write to our father vicar-general under date of July 5, of
the same year. And after, on June 26, 1674, he adds that, according
to the relations sent to the chapter by the father prior of Bislig,
that district had increased by two hundred tributes. This, according
to the reckoning in vogue there, means eight hundred souls. They
had all been allured from the mountains and from the horrors of
their paganism to become inhabitants of the villages already formed,
and to live in civilized intercourse among the pleasant lights of
the Christian name. This well premeditated idea has since then been
followed as has been possible by the successors of our father, Fray
Juan de San Phelipe, whenever the small number of religious has not
rendered it impossible. For in some chapters of that holy province,
repeated determinations are seen to place a minister in residence at
Catel, so that he may exercise the