BEATERIO OF SANTA CATALINA DE SENA_The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 45, 1736 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century

It was founded in 1696 by Mother Francisca del Espíritu Santo, a

Spanish woman born in Manila, and by the very reverend father, Fray

Juan de Santo Domingo, provincial of the Dominicans. Its object is to

teach Spanish girls how to read, write, reckon, the Christian doctrine,

to sew, etc. In that duty the necessary beatas are occupied. They

obey a superior whom they appoint from their own number, and such

person takes the title of prioress. At present this school has 26

Spanish girls and 60 supernumeraries and servants. [128]

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