Identifier: philippineisland23blai (find matches)
Title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 : 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 the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the beginning of the nineteenth century;
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Blair, Emma Helen, d. 1911 Bourne, Edward Gaylord, 1860-1908 Robertson, James Alexander, 1873-1939
Subjects: Demarcation line of Alexander VI Missions
Publisher: Cleveland, O. : The A.H. Clark Company
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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islands in an attempt to find the re-turn passage, but they were forced to put back to theMoluccas. Shortly after his return to Spain, he wentagain to New Spain, where, in 1542, Viceroy DonAntonio de Mendoza appointed him general of thefleet of the new expedition. He begged off, as heloved his quiet, ... or, because he feared forthe success of the expedition. . . . ThereforeRuy Lopez de Villalobos was appointed in his stead;but his voyage was very unfortunate. Afterward,tired of the world, and disillusioned of it, Urdanetatook the habit of our father St. Augustine in thefamous convent of Mexico - where he dedicated him-self so thoroughly to matters of religion and virtuethat one would believe that he had been reared totheir observance all the days of his life, so forgetfulwas he of what he had seen in the world, as if he hadnever lived in it. But when he seemed to be enjoyingthe greatest quiet and repose, God drew him from hiscell, and placed him in charge of new naviga-tions. . . .)
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Monument in Manila to Legazpi andUrdaneta l^Froni a photograph in possession of the Colegio deAgustinos Filipinos, Vnlladolid) 1629-1630) MEDINAS HISTORIA 127 CHAPTERS II AND III (Upoii the receipt of the kings letters, the viceroyof New Spain, with the concurrence of the Audi-encia, summoned father Fray Andres de Urdaneta,and after having delivered into his own hands the let-ter that had come for him from his Majesty, intimatedto him the importance of the expedition and the greatspiritual advantages that would accrue from it.When urged to accept the trust, Urdaneta respondedthat he must first communicate with his superior,who stood to him in place of God. The consent andorder of the latter was readily obtained, and Urdanetaaccepted the expedition with so great joy and glad-ness, that the fire that glowed in his heart was wellshown by his eagerness. In continuation of the pro-ject, the viceroy took measures to establish a ship-yard in Puerto de la Navidad-one hundred andtwenty leguasphilippineisland23blai

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