77.
[49] Fray Lucas de la Pena was very fluent in the Bisayan language,
and labored in the missions of the Bisayan group from 1600 to 1630,
probably dying soon after the last named year. See Perez's _Catalogo_,
pp. 184, 185.
[50] Spanish, _del tropel de los caballos_--literally, "from the
trampling of the horses."
[51] "He said that those were true monks who, stifling their own wills,
wished or refused nothing, but desired only to obey the commands of
the abbot."
[52] Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews, x, 30.--_Coco_.
[53] Psalms civ, 15.--_Coco_.
[54] Fray Alonso Rincon professed in the convent of San Felipe el Real,
and after going to the Philippines became preacher at Arevalo in 1607,
and was minister in Betis in 1609 and 1626. After administering the
villages of Porac in 1611, Macabebe in 1614, and Guagua in 1615, he
was appointed definitor, visitor, and prior of the convent of Manila
in 1617. He was commissary-procurator to Spain and Rome in 1618, and
returned to Manila in 1622. He was elected definitor for the second
time in 1629, and died at Manila in 1631.
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