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_ [53] All the others
understood this and were warned. Often since that have I heard him say
to an encomendero, that even though the missionary should destroy his
encomienda, he would neither enter suit against him, nor do anything
to him that he should not do. For the judgment of men is deceptive,
and their passion generally leads them astray and casts them headlong.
Our father Fray Alonso de Baraona was very sensitive regarding this
occurrence, and set it right by advancing the father and making
him prior of Santisimo Nombre de Jesus, and visitor for those
convents. Thus he voted in this chapter which elected father Fray
Juan Enriquez, and himself obtained therefrom the convent of Octong,
the chief one of the island.
During this triennium of our father Fray Juan Enriquez, our Recollect
fathers founded a convent in Sugbu, as Bishop Don Fray Pedro de Arce
was pleased to give them a chapel which is in that city, between
the native and the Spanish towns, and called Nuestra Senora de la
Concepcion [_i.e._, "Our Lady of the Conception"].


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