[34] The word collegium, as used here, means rather “residence” than “college;” but we retain the latter rendering because the Jesuits were then actually conducting an educational institution at Manila, in which they gave instruction to the Spaniards and to some natives.  This was the college of San Jose, for which provision had been made as early as 1585; but for various reasons it was not opened until 1600.  Its first rector was Pedro Chirino; among its first students (thirteen in all) were Pedro Tello, a nephew of the governor, and Antonio de Morga, a son of the auditor.  See La Concepcion’s detailed account, in Hist. de Philipinas, iii, pp. 403-409.

[35] La Concepcion states (Hist. de Philipinas, iii, pp. 386-387) that St. Polycarp was chosen by lot, in a solemn and public assembly as the especial patron of the city of Manila, for its protection against earthquakes, as Santa Potenciana was its patron in hurricanes and tempests.

[36] Antipolo is a town lying about thirteen miles east of Manila, near the northwest corner of Laguna de Bay.

[37] La Concepcion gives (Hist. de Philipinas, iii, pp. 409-412) an interesting account of the labors of this bishop, Fray Pedro de Agurto, during the year 1600.  Assembling the clergy and friars of his diocese, he proposed to them various measures, especially intended to facilitate the instruction and conversion of the natives.  The catechism of the church had been already translated into the Visayan speech; but this version was now entrusted to a committee of six (equally divided between the Jesuits, Augustinians, and regular clergy) for revision.  This assembly resolved to attempt the suppression of polygamy among the heathen Indians subject to the Spaniards, and to check the easy divorces prevalent among them.  Agurto undertook a visitation in Leyte and Samar, but could not complete it on account of those islands being invaded by pirates from Mindanao.

[38] Miguel Gomez entered the Jesuit order at Alcala in 1582; after his ordination was sent to the Philippines; during his stay there was for some time an instructor in the college at Manila; and died there December 28, 1622.

[39] Ledesma was born in 1556, and became a novice in the Jesuit order at the age of sixteen.  In 1596 he came to the Philippines, where he filled high positions in his order—­rector at Zebu, rector at Manila, and provincial of the islands.  He died at Manila, May 15, 1639.

[40] Christoval Ximenes was born in 1573, and entered the Jesuit order in 1588.  Coming to the Philippines in 1596, he spent thirty-two years in the Visayan missions; he died at Alangatang, in Leyte, December 3, 1628.  He was noted as a linguist, and composed various works, religious or poetical, in the Visayan tongue; one of these was a translation of Bellarmino’s Doctrina Christiana (Manila, 1610).

Gabriel Sanchez is not mentioned by Sommervogel.