The bishop cooeperated, and considered it good that
the province had elected him; and the province itself insisted on it
by universal acclaim. Consequently, our father visitor confirmed our
father provincial Fray Miguel Garcia, first dispensing him for the
impediment of the lack of age, which was but little. That lack was
more than supplied by his excess of prudence.
The definitors elected at this chapter were the reverend fathers:
first, Fray Francisco Bonifacio; second, Fray Juan de Tapia; third,
Fray Vicente de Sepulveda; and fourth, Fray Estacio Ortiz. The
absolute provincial, father Fray Diego Gutierrez, received a vote. The
visitors who were elected in this definitorio were father Fray
Bernabe de Villalobos and father Fray Antonio de Porras [22], the
latter being _adito_. [23] All the above in assembly made excellent
regulations, and established for that time very good acts and laws;
and they charged our father provincial with the execution of them,
since on that depended the universal good of all the province.
It was proposed in this chapter, and, in fact, it was so ordered,
for reasons that were very apparent there, that the chapters in the
future should be held every four years, and the intermediary chapters
every two years.
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