In this village there is a house of teaching, or a beaterio entitled
Santa Rita, which was founded in 1740 with the necessary licenses
by the calced Augustinian, Fray Felix de Trillo, then parish priest
of Pasig. Its primary object is to provide shelter for Filipino
orphan girls, and to teach them reading, writing, Christian doctrine,
sewing, embroidery, and other employments fitting for their sex. They
dress when they go to the parish church in the habit of mantelates of
St. Augustine, but they take no vow or obligation. Those educated and
sheltered dress as in their own homes. This beaterio is sustained by
the work of their hands and by alms, under the care and solicitous
management of the parish priests. The latter are not those who give
the least alms for its useful preservation, and that from the product
of some estates which they have rented out, and which they acquired
by their economy. Furthermore, the young women who enter as wards
pay when their relatives are able, according to their wealth, up to
the sum of two pesos per month. That is the greatest fee, but it is
more usual for each one who is educated to contribute a few cavans
of palay per year--generally about ten or twelve. But those who are
quite poor and orphans pay nothing. This retreat has at the present
time sixteen beatas.