Manila College XXXII XII XI IX
Seminary of St. Joseph III I II
Elementary School XI IX II
Establishment at Silang II I I
Establishment at Antipolo VII IV III
Cebu College VIII IV IV
Bohol Residence V IV I
Carigara Residence VI IV II
Dulac Residence VI IV II
Tinagon Residence V IV I
Palapag Residence V IV I
Arevalo Mission II I I

Adults cleansed by holy baptism, two thousand three hundred and eight-three.  Heretics condemned, twenty-three.

Chastity protected against suitors or immodest women, fifteen times.

Heretics reconciled, seven times.

The sacred commentaries have been used by eleven.

The Holy Cross and the recitation of the Gospel of St. John has rescued thirteen persons from various dangers; the Blessed Virgin, two; the Blessed Ignatius and Xavier, five.

The College at Manila

I. Since last year’s letters regarding this college were very full, we shall deal with it now very briefly; we will begin with two brethren who have finished their course of life:  Luis a Figueroa and Didacus de Zarcuela.  Luis was of noble birth, but of nobler nature.  When he had studied the humanities, he could not be persuaded that he might be admitted to sacred orders; and when the fathers hesitated to admit him into the Society because of a lack of strength in his feet, “Receive me,” he said, “I beg you, as a servant, to set fire to the wood others have cut; and, when the work is done, to cover the fire with ashes or put it out.”  Being admitted in so humble a frame of mind, he took care for the most part of the wardrobe, being best satisfied with the lot of Martha, which he praised wherever he had the opportunity.  So powerful and effective was he in persuasion and dissuasion that one of his associates declared that he went to his work more readily on account of Luis’s words in conversation than through the formal speech of any orator whatsoever.  He exhibited the virtue of charity in the highest degree; and although unable to tolerate the slightest deficiency in himself, he strove with love and prudence to effect the same perfection in others.  Receiving from Rome at the end of his illness letters by which he was formally enrolled among the lay brethren, he was so penetrated with joy that he had strength to offer his vows in the church—­after which, his illness increasing