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Our fathers, meanwhile, repaired to their quarters and berths to invoke the most blessed Virgin, to call upon God, and to pray for the intercession of the saints all of them especially invoking that of blessed Father Ignacio, a relic of whom the father-visitor carried with him.

In a letter to the father-visitor, dated in November of the year one thousand six hundred, he writes thus: "The archdeacon of Sebu, who holds the benefice of Tanai a venerable and meritorious man, as your Reverence well knows went in person to the island of Bohol, twelve leguas away, to beseech Father Alonso de Umanes, our superior, to send, for God's love, a father to teach his people the law of God, since he himself did not know their language.

The good conduct of the Christians of Botuan. I shall, continuing as I began, relate the prosperous condition of Christianity in Botuan in the same words which Father Valerio de Ledesma and his companion, Father Manuel Martinez, used in writing this year to the father-visitor.

The father-visitor founded a hospital in Antipolo, which has been most important to the welfare of their souls and bodies. In this he was assisted by the chiefs, whose wives performed, in a separate place, the same act of humility toward some sick women. A rule was made that the poor should be fed each day by four brethren of the Confraternity, who aid them with much charity and pleasure.

Yet they passed on without stopping, as Father Gabriel relates in part of his letter of November 16, which runs as follows: "In order that your Reverence may aid us in rendering thanks to our Lord for a great act of mercy which He has shown us, your Reverence, as father-visitor, should know that on the twenty-sixth of October in this year, 1600, the enemy attacked Baclayun just after our fathers had gone thence to Sebu, summoned thither by holy obedience; for the father rector had sent in haste for the three of us who were in the island, and lo! the enemy were there.

Occurrences in Manila at this time. In the latter part of June in the year one thousand five hundred and ninety-nine, the father-visitor and his companions were resting from the hardships of their voyage, and preparing to begin anew their labors the father on his tour of inspection, and the others in the fishery for souls for which purpose they had gone into retreat to perform the exercises, and to allow themselves more leisure for solitary prayer.

Father Melchior Hurtado, in another letter to the father-visitor, thus writes: "The baptism of the mutes whom the father vice-provincial catechized was performed with all possible solemnity, and with the utmost satisfaction that our Lord had made good in these poor men their lack of hearing and speech.

This and other beneficial results from that residence of Silan are well described by Father Gregorio Lopez in a letter written by him for the father-visitor, thus: "Early in my stay there, the people told me that in Caibabayan was a catalona, or priestess; and in order to cut the thread of evil, and to gain a knowledge of those distant fields and peoples, I went thither, desiring to act toward them as a father rather than as a judge; and the Lord, who is the true Father of all, fulfilled my desire.

Without doubt, if there were many men of this sort the lack of ministers here would be well supplied in many respects." The arrival in the Philippines of the father-visitor, Diego Garcia, and how he began his visitation.

The father-visitor also began a seminary for boys, where they are reared in virtue and good habits, obeying the rules imposed upon them, according to their capacity, of Christian and civilized living. This school is of great importance to the whole mission, for from these children must come the good rulers of the people; and it is an easy and gentle means for all reformation.