Volume 25 — Letter of Consolation to the Jesuits of Pintados
Reading edition
To my beloved fathers and brothers of the islands and residences of the Pintados.
Pax Christi, etc.:
Juan de Bueras
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · This raid spread fear and alarm throughout the Visayas; and the religious, especially the Jesuits, urged the governor (then Cerezo de SalamaNote 2 · “The seed is the blood of Christians.”Note 3 · A corruption of kasis (Vol. XVI, p. 134), or kázi, an appellation of Mahometan preachers.Note 4 · Part of the thirty-fifth verse. The quotation should end with eam. The English is: “And whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the goNote 5 · Translated: “He that shall lose (his life), He says, for my sake. There is the whole cause. He that shall lose, not in any way whatsoever, nNote 6 · Translated: “If a robber should assault, or a wild beast attack, or hunger or thirst or cold afflict, one fleeing in the desert and mountainNote 7 · Théophile Raynaud was born November 15, 1587, at Sospello, in the county of Nice, and entered the Society of Jesus November 21, 1602. He tauNote 8 · “In goodness and liberality.”Note 9 · A portion of St. Mark x, 30. The Latin of the entire passage is: Qui non accipiat centies tantum, nunc in tempore hoc: domos, et fratres, etNote 10 · Translated: “I greet you, well-beloved and blessed brethren, yearning also myself for the joy of seeing you, if only the conditions of placeNote 11 · Great has been the grief that has been caused to us who have been in these missions of the Tagals, by severe hardships that your Reverences