[21] La Concepcion gives a similar account of this episode in Hist. de Philipinas, iv, pp. 67-69.

[22] Panamao is the ancient name of the island of Biliran, off the northwestern extremity of Leyte, and is still applied to a mountain in the northern part of Biliran.

[23] Picote:  a sort of silken fabric, very lustrous, used for garments. Jusi (husi) is thus described in the U.S.  Philippine Commission’s Report, 1900, iv, pp. 55, 56:  “The especial product of Philippine looms, especially those from the towns of Caloocan and Iloilo, is jusi.  These Philippine jusis, celebrated for their lightness, beauty, and delicate patterns, are made from silk alone, or more commonly with the warp of cotton or pineapple fiber and the woof of silk.  Pieces are made to suit the buyer.  These pieces are usually 30 or more yards in length, and from three-quarters of a yard to a yard in width, and beautifully bordered in colors.  This beautiful cloth, which varies in price from 50 cents to $1 a yard, compares favorably with fabrics of European manufacture.”

[24] The present Silang is nineteen miles south of Cavite.

[25] Spanish, monumento; an altar erected in churches on Holy Thursday which resembles a sepulchre.

[26] Water blessed in the font on Holy Saturday and the vigil of Pentecost, which must be used at least in solemn baptism....  The priest then pours oil of catechumens and chrism into the water.”  These are two of the three kinds of “holy oils;” chrism is composed of olive oil mixed with balm.  See Addis and Arnold’s Catholic Dictionary, pp. 64, 152, 616.

[27] Marginal reference:  “I Maccabees, 6.”

[28] Marginal reference:  “St. Ambrose, De officiis clericorum, i, chap. 40.”

[29] Equivalent to about twenty-eight feet, U.S. measure.

[30] He left Cavite on the seventh day of July, in the vessel “San Antonio,” which was built in the island of Panamao.  This vessel was lost in 1604, while making its second voyage from Cavite to Acapulco.—­Pablo Pastells, S.J.

[31] Juan Manuel Hurtado de Mendoza y Luna, Marques de Montesclaros, who held an important office in Sevilla, was made viceroy of Nueva Espana, arriving at Mexico in September, 1603.  This office he held until 1606, when he was made viceroy of Peru.  He died in 1628.

[32] Spanish, Recoletos:  the barefooted branch of the Augustinians, known also as Descalzos in Spain and its former colonial possessions.  The origin of this brotherhood is due to a reform movement in Spain in the sixteenth century, started by the Venerable Thomas de Jesus, who was for many years a captive among the Moors in Africa.  He, with other lovers of primitive observance of the Augustinian rule, essayed to reintroduce divers customs no longer common among the brotherhood, as frequent fasts, midnight prayers, wearing beards, and going with uncovered heads.