Week the converts practice flagellation; and on one occasion one of
the fathers gives his flock a practical lesson in Christian charity.

In Tinagon the Jesuits baptize, during the year ending in April,
1600, nearly a thousand persons. The number of missionaries for this
field is so inadequate that they send to some villages the Indian
boys who have been instructed, in order that they may teach the
people the catechism and doctrine. Accounts of missionary labors
and of certain conversions are given in extracts from some letters
written by the fathers. All the people are friendly to the new faith,
and the prospect is most encouraging.

Chirino mentions the shipwreck of the vessels bound for Mexico, and the
conflict with Oliver van Noordt, in connection with which he describes
the deaths and the pious lives of some Jesuits who perished therein. In
1601 Father Gregorio López brings to the islands a reënforcement of
nine missionaries; and their long and dangerous voyage across the
Pacific, safely accomplished through the intercession of St. Ignatius,
is fully described. In the same year and the next arrive also many
missionaries of the other orders: Chirino praises their devotion and
zeal, the fraternal spirit among the various orders, the excellent
influence exerted by their members among the Spaniards in Manila, and
the religious spirit exhibited by the latter; and describes various
exercises of piety practiced there--the institution of a religious
congregation among the students in the Jesuit college, and, later,
one among the townspeople; the practice of flagellation every week
during the year, as well as in Lent; attendance at Sunday afternoon
sermons; the choice of patron saints by lot; etc. The particulars of
certain conversions and virtuous acts are also related--especially
the conversion of the Dutch prisoners captured from van Noordt.