Note 58 — Chapter XLIII

Fray Diego del Aguila, a master of the number in the ecclesiastical province of Andalucía, was, in spite of his protests, elected superior of the province of Mechoacán in Mexico while en route for the Philippines; but he finally followed his first determination, and sailed for the islands in 1618. He there became visitor, definitor (1623), vicar-provincial, prior of Guadalupe (1620), and president of the provincial chapter in 1626. He died at Manila in 1628. See Pérez’s Catálogo, p. 98. Pérez has evidently confused Diego del Aguila with Lúcas de Aguilar, who was definitor in 1650. See Diaz’s Conquistas (Valladolid, 1890), p. 516.