y in the
island, because of the great number of parishioners to which it has
increased, because a great multitude of heathen Manguianes who have
been converted to our holy faith, have gone thither to live, as well
as a not small number of apostate Christians, who were wandering
at liberty through those mountains. All that was obtained by the
preaching of our laborers by whose efforts three of the said villages
were reestablished. [Two prodigies or miraculous occurrences which
are related aided in the christianizing of this convent.]

808 [and 809]. Another and third convent was established in the convent
of Calavite by the efforts of father Fray Diego de la Resurreccion,
and its titular was Nuestra Senora del Populo [i.e., Our Lady of the
People]. It has the annexed villages of Dongon, Santa Cruz, Mamburao,
Tubili, and Santo Thomas. Of those settlements, those that are on the
coast which extends from Calavite to Mangarin, have been founded for
the most part by dint of the zeal of our religious. They formerly had
many Christians, although at present they have suffered a remarkable
diminution because of the persecutions of the Moros which we have
already mentioned. [An epidemic that was raging throughout this
district when the convent was founded was checked miraculously. In
the same district, a heathen Manguian chief who had opposed the new
faith surrendered to the personal solicitation of Fray Diego de la
Resurreccion, and became a good Christian, and afterward aided in the
conversion of many others. The district was miraculously cleared of
the pest of locusts which were destroying all the fields.]

810 [and 811]. The fourth convent was erected in the village of
Mangarin under the advocacy of our father, St. Augustine. Its
prior also governed the villages of Guasig, Manaol, Ililin, and
Bulalacao. However, the provincial chapter of 1737 ordered that house
removed to Bongabong, for reasons that they considered most sufficient,
namely, because Mangarin was ruined by the continual invasions of the
Moros, and because of its poor temperature, which put an end to the
health of almost all the religious. For that reason, the distribution
of the annexed villages of Naojan, Mangarin, and Calavite in another
manner was inevitable, so that the correct administration of the
doctrina might be more promptly administered. But the convents above
mentioned always were left standing, and serve as plazas de armas,
where those soldiers of