[64] In Menology of the English Province, S.J. (Roehampton, 1874) is the following notice (July 14):  “At Manila, in the Philippine Islands, in 1627, Father Thomas de Montoya, an Indian of Florida.  After thirty years of indefatigable labor among those nations, he died by slow poison, given by the Bassians [Bisayans?] out of hatred to the Faith.”  The statement regarding his nativity is, however, erroneous.  “Murillo Velarde states (Historia, lib. viii, cap. x, no. 57) that this father was born, not in Florida, but at Zacatecas (Mexico), in 1568.  He entered the Society at the age of eighteen, in the Mexican province, and passed over to that of the Philippines in 1595 (the year when it was formed).  There he filled successively the offices of Latin teacher at Manila, master of novices, and missionary to the Pintados.  These Indians poisoned him, after which it seems that he returned to Manila, where his life was a continued martyrdom.  To the sufferings from the effect of the poison were added those of a violent asthma.  He possessed perfectly the Tagal language.” (See Woodstock Letters, 1900, vol. 29, pp. 154, 155.) He is also mentioned by Colin (Hist. misiones, part ii, book iii, p. 334).—­E.I.  Devitt, S.J. (Georgetown College).

[65] Francisco de Borja (Borgia), Duke of Gandia (a city in Spain), entered the Jesuit order in 1551, becoming its general in 1565; he held this office until his death, September 30, 1572.  He was beautified in 1624, and canonized in 1671.

[66] His remains are now entombed to the right of the transept of the Cebu cathedral.—­Pablo Pastells, S.J.

[67] Don Francisco Tello entered Manila July 14.  He had left Acapulco March 6, with Father Vera.  The latter’s companions were Fathers Lopez de la Parra, Manuel Martinez, Valerio de Ledesma, Juan de Torres, Gabriel Sanchez, Miguel Gomez, Juan de San Lucar, Francisco de Otazo, Alonso Rodriguez, Cristobal Jimenez, Francisco de Encinas, Diego de Santiago, Leonardo Scelsi, and Bartolome Martes.—­Pablo Pastells, S.J.

[68] Various Philippine languages were studied and systematized by the first missionaries to the islands, although none of these works were printed, so far as is known, before 1610.  Probably the earliest of these was a vocabulary of the language of the Cebu islanders, by Martin de Rada (who died in 1580).  Other early Augustinians composed linguistic works as follows:  Agustin de Alburquerque (died 1580) an Arte, or grammar, of the Tagal language; Diego Ochoa (died 1585), an Arte and vocabulary of the Pampango; Esteban Marin (died 1601), Artes of Igorrote and Zambal.