Wherefore we command that to it full regard be shown. In
testimony whereof we have sealed these presents, signed by our own
hand, and have ordered the same to be issued by our secretary. Maduti,
of the diocese of Ysleta, the twenty-eighth day of June, 1633.
By order of the same most illustrious lord:
_D. Francisco Gutierrez Corrilla_, secretary.
NEWS FROM THE FAR EAST, 1632
_Information which has been sent from the city of Manila of the present
condition of the Catholic religion in Philipinas, Japon, and Great
China; sent by father Fray Juan Garcia, [100] professed religious
of the Order of St. Dominic, to the royal convent of San Pablo at
Sevilla. Account of how the king our lord has taken an island in
Great China, called La Hermosa, with a great fortress which is there_.
During the former year of 631, twenty-eight professed religious of the
Order of St. Dominic, from different convents in Spana, who voluntarily
offered themselves for the service of God our Lord, the holy apostolic
Roman see, and their order, left the port of San Lucar de Barameda,
having embarked to cross over to the province of Nueva Espana in the
Yndias, thence to the Philipinas Islands, Japon, and the kingdom of
Great China, in order to preach the faith of Jesus Christ in those
said kingdoms to the barbarous and idolatrous heathen there.
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