[35] Fray Diego Oseguera was a choir student in 1607, minister of Mambusao in 1611 and of Baong in 1614.  He was especially useful in quieting the Indians who were in rebellion in the Bisayas.  He died in 1615.  See Perez’s Catalogo, pp. 187, 188.

[36] Francisco Encinas, S.J., was born at Avila in 1570, and took his vows in 1596.  After going to the Philippines, he taught grammar for some time, and then spent more than thirty years in the Bisayas.  Having been sent to Rome as procurator for his order, in 1626, he was captured by the Dutch; but, after ransom, returned to the Philippines in 1632, and died at Manila, January 11, 1633.  He was equally versed in Tagal and the Bisayan speech.  See Sommervogel’s Bibliotheque.

[37] Fray Juan de Montemayor was confessor to Governor Juan de Silva and a prominent orator.  He was stationed at Malate 1614-1620, being appointed provincial secretary in the latter year.  He was procurator-general in 1621, prior of Santo Nino de Cebu in 1623, missionary at Pasig, 1625-1629, of Paranaque in 1626, provincial chronicler in 1630, and prior of Guadalupe in 1635.  He died at Manila in 1638.  See Perez’s Catalogo, p. 88.

[38] Fray Agustin Mejia was a Mexican missionary, and after going to the Philippines served in mission work in Mexico in 1608, in Bacolor in 1611, in Guagua in 1614, and in Mexico in 1617.  He was prior of Manila in 1615, definitor, visitor, and vicar-provincial; and died in 1630, leaving a volume of Ilocan verses, the “Life of San Barlam y Josaphat,” which remained many years in the convent of Bantay.  See Perez’s Catalogo, p. 79.

[39] Fray Pedro Lasarte (not Lesarte) professed in the convent of Toledo in 1572.  He was missionary in Purao in 1600, in Bacarra in 1602, in Bauang in 1605, 1611, 1614, and 1620, and in Bantay in 1608 and 1611.  He was definitor in 1617, prior of Manila in 1626, and again missionary of Bantay in 1629, dying in that place in 1636.  See Perez’s Catalogo, p. 50.

[40] For sketches of these Augustinians, see Perez’s Catalogo.

[41] Perez mentions no missionary by this name.

[42] Evidently an error for Fray Miguel de Suarez.  He was from the branch of the order in India.  In the Philippines, he served as a Tagal and Visayan missionary, laboring in Batan in 1605, in Masbate in 1607, in Ibahay in 1611, in Aclan in 1614, in Panay in 1617, in Batangas in 1621 and 1633, in Tanauan in 1623, in Tambobong in 1626, in Taal in 1629, in Bugason in Bisayas in 1630, in Guiguinto in 1632 and 1639, in San Pablo de los Montes in 1636, and in Caruyan in 1641.  He was also procurator-general in 1620, and prior of the convent of Cebu in 1638, dying in 1642.  See Perez’s Catalogo, p. 186.