shall relate later.

1114. But since it was necessary for this attainment to found some
convent, they erected it that same year in the village of Mobo, which
had the most inhabitants. It has Nuestra Senora de los Remedios [i.e.,
our Lady of Remedies] as titular, and a very costly church is being
built which abounds in reredoses and other adornments with a sacristy
provided with vestments [? jocalias] and ornaments. The house is very
capacious and has all the necessary rooms and has moreover cells for
the religious who generally live in it. That convent was the refuge of
the gospel ministers who lived in it in suitable number to look after
the Christians in spiritual matters and to allure the apostates to
the bosom of the Christian religion which they had abandoned. Thence,
as swift moving clouds, they went out to fertilize the other villages
with the water of their doctrine and having become hunters of souls,
to overrun the deserts and mountains. Although there were not more
than six villages in the three islands when our discalced religious
entered to administer them, in a few years they established three more
where they could shelter those who were being reduced to our holy
faith. And hence the workers of that mission with inexplicable toil
cared for a great number of souls who dwelt in the capital of Mobo, and
in its annexed villages or visitas of Ticao, Burias, Balino, Palanog,
Habuyoan, Tagmasuso, Buracan, and Limbojan. In that extensive territory
not few times did God explain His mercies with repeated miracles in
confirmation of the faith which Ours were preaching. Some received
with baptism the health of the body, and others found themselves freed
from their pains by the prayers of the ministers, accompanied by the
laying on of hands. However, inasmuch as the manuscripts give us these
notices without specification, we cannot name the individual miracles.

1115. A very lamentable event for the islands which happened in the
year 1726, was the reason for the founding of another convent in
Ticao. It happened as follows. The galleon "Santo Christo de Burgos,"
while making its voyage to Nueva Espana, anchored at the port of Ticao
in order to await good weather before taking to the open sea. But
it was shipwrecked there by a storm which came upon it. On board
that vessel was Don Julian de Velasco, a minister assigned to the
Audiencia of Mexico. He managed to obtain his spiritual improvement
from that disaster so transc