ISBN: 9781153716291

Excerpt: ...from the taxes of the Indians, proportioned among those which shall be assigned to our royal crown and to private persons, without touching our royal treasury, which proceeds … More...

Excerpt: ...from the taxes of the Indians, proportioned among those which shall be assigned to our royal crown and to private persons, without touching our royal treasury, which proceeds from other kinds of taxes. We declare that it is not our intention by this to deprive the bishops of their superintendence and protection of the Indians in general. (Felipe II, Madrid, January 17, 1593, in a clause of a letter). 2 The hospital order of St John of God was originally founded by a Portuguese soldier (named Joan), who at the age of forty years devoted himself, as a religious duty, to the care of sick persons. He began a hospital in his own house at Granada (1540), and his bishop permitted him and his associates to wear a habit. After his death (1550) similar hospitals were formed in Spain, and even spread to Italy. In 1585 all these were organized into an order, with constitutions, under the papal sanction; this order is still in existence, and has establishments in many countries. It did not reach the Philippines until 1649. 3 Fray Diego Aduarte, Bishop of Nueva Segovia, wrote to the 165n king (July 7, 1606), as follows: Your Majesty possesses here a royal hospital which is one of the most necessary and useful things in this country for the welfare and care of the poor soldiers and others who serve your Majesty. Although the income which it has is small, it would be sufficient aid, with the many alms given by the citizens who are well to do, if there were some one who could distribute it well and take it in charge as his own affair. It is a most necessary thing for its good government and maintenance that your Majesty should send four or five brethren of the order called Juan de Dios, with the authority of your Majesty and his Holiness, and with power to receive others. For the institution is already founded and everything necessary supplied; and these brethren might come with the religious whom your Majesty sends here, either Franciscan or... Emma Helen Blair, Books, Travel, The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - 1606-1609 Explorations By Early Navigators, Descriptions Of The Islands And Their Peoples, The Books>Travel The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 14 of 55 1606-1609 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 Close of the Nineteenth Century; Subjects: Demarcation line of Alexander VI; Missions; Philippines; Demarcation line of Alexander VI; History / Asia / Southeast Asia; Religion / Christian Ministry / Missions;<

ISBN: 9781153716291

Excerpt: ...from the taxes of the Indians, proportioned among those which shall be assigned to our royal crown and to private persons, without touching our royal treasury, which proceeds … More...

Excerpt: ...from the taxes of the Indians, proportioned among those which shall be assigned to our royal crown and to private persons, without touching our royal treasury, which proceeds from other kinds of taxes. We declare that it is not our intention by this to deprive the bishops of their superintendence and protection of the Indians in general. (Felipe II, Madrid, January 17, 1593, in a clause of a letter). 2 The hospital order of St John of God was originally founded by a Portuguese soldier (named Joan), who at the age of forty years devoted himself, as a religious duty, to the care of sick persons. He began a hospital in his own house at Granada (1540), and his bishop permitted him and his associates to wear a habit. After his death (1550) similar hospitals were formed in Spain, and even spread to Italy. In 1585 all these were organized into an order, with constitutions, under the papal sanction; this order is still in existence, and has establishments in many countries. It did not reach the Philippines until 1649. 3 Fray Diego Aduarte, Bishop of Nueva Segovia, wrote to the 165n king (July 7, 1606), as follows: Your Majesty possesses here a royal hospital which is one of the most necessary and useful things in this country for the welfare and care of the poor soldiers and others who serve your Majesty. Although the income which it has is small, it would be sufficient aid, with the many alms given by the citizens who are well to do, if there were some one who could distribute it well and take it in charge as his own affair. It is a most necessary thing for its good government and maintenance that your Majesty should send four or five brethren of the order called Juan de Dios, with the authority of your Majesty and his Holiness, and with power to receive others. For the institution is already founded and everything necessary supplied; and these brethren might come with the religious whom your Majesty sends here, either Franciscan or... Emma Helen Blair, Books, Travel, The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - 1606-1609 Explorations By Early Navigators, Descriptions Of The Islands And Their Peoples, The Books>Travel, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781153716291

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: 1606-1609 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Rela P… More...

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