by James A. Robertson.





HISTORY OF THE AUGUSTINIAN ORDER IN THE FILIPINAS ISLANDS

By Fray Juan de Medina, O.S.A.

(Concluded)





CHAPTER XXX

_Of the first election of our father Fray Lorenzo de León_


With the fourth of May, 1596, all the capitular religious of this
province of Santísimo Nombre de Jesús of Filipinas assembled, and
without much debate cast their votes for father Fray Lorenzo de
León, [1] a native of the city of Granada, and son of the house
at Méjico, whose learning, ability to preach, and other good
qualities made him very well known, and caused him to be elected
without opposition. Accordingly he won the contest as provincial,
to the general liking of all the religious of the province, both
those voting and those who had no vote. All were assured that he