BEATERIO OF SANTA ROSA_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

Mother Paula de la Santísima Trinidad, native of Cataluña, had

scarcely arrived at Manila in 1750, when she dedicated herself to

the education of girls and was the origin of this foundation. By

a royal decree of September 22, 1774, his Majesty ordered that the

house or beaterio founded by this good woman should take care of the

education of every class of girls. It is maintained by alms, by the

work of their hands, and by the few small fees which some girls pay

for their support therein, where they are taught reading, sewing,

etc. Neither their number nor that of the servants is fixed. His

Majesty has taken it under his protection, and entrusted it in his

name to the regent of the Audiencia, with the fitting powers.

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