The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 21 of 55 - 1624 - Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing by Various
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and done to the said judge conservator; and if not, the latter will
proceed to what is advisable, in accordance with law. In respect to the provisor, through his having incurred that contained in the said canon, _si quis suadente_, he ordered that he be proclaimed in the public parts of this city as excommunicated, so that all may know of it, and that no person remove, or cause to be removed, the said posters, under penalty of greater excommunication, _ipso facto incurrenda_ ... " In view of the aforesaid, and considering that the Audiencia gave no support to the archbishop, so that he might prosecute the said visit that he had begun, he insisted no further on it. But "so that the aforesaid might be apparent to his Majesty, and that the latter might provide what relief he pleased, the archbishop ordered--and he did so order--a testimony to be sent to the royal Council of the Yndias of all that had been done, and that the briefs mentioned in this act be sent also ... " At the same time he wrote the following letter to his Majesty:] Sire. Finding myself obliged, both by the holy council of Trent and a brief of his Holiness Gregory Fourteenth, and by the restraining decrees of your Majesty, in regard to the visiting of the religious missionaries by the bishops--respecting curacies, and that they do not exercise such office without being examined beforehand in the language of the natives that they administer--I determined to carry out so holy mandates, from which so many blessings must result to the service of God and that of your Majesty. Accordingly, having declared my purpose to the superiors of the said orders, three months before beginning the |
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