Note 2 — EARLY FRANCISCAN MISSIONS
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In Tagolanda on the island of Maluco, the Moros of the island, after killing father Fray Sebastián de San Joseph2 with arrows for the preaching of the faith, beheaded him. His associate Fray Antonio de Santa Ana,3 a lay-brother, was given to the women of the island because he refused to marry one of the chief Moro women, the daughter of the king of that island. They, dancing to the sound of a tambourine, began to stick sharp knives into all parts of his body; and then they beheaded him, and nailed his head to a pole. It is said that he preached our holy faith to those faithless Moros for many days after his death. Juridical reports of the martyrdom of those two religious were made in Manila, in Therrenate, and Macau, by order of his Holiness.