CHAPTER VII_The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume 32, 1640 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.

The expedition of father Fray Alonso Navarrete, vicar-provincial of

our order in Japon, and father Fray Hernando de San Joseph, or Ayala,

vicar-provincial of the order of our father St. Augustine, for the

aid of the Christians of Omura.

[The persecutors were satisfied with these deaths, thinking that they

would frighten the ministers of the gospel and either drive them out

of Japon or greatly curtail their activity. May 24, 1617, on the eve

of Corpus Christi, father Fray Alonso Navarrete, vicar-general of our

order, set out for Omura, where the other priests had been martyred,

with the purpose of openly preaching the gospel there. He took with him

a courageous Japanese servant named Pablo. The landlord of his house

also volunteered. Father Fray Hernando de San Joseph, vicar-provincial

of the Augustinian order, who was his close friend, decided to

accompany him. After examining their consciences carefully, father

Fray Francisco de Morales of our order approved their enterprise.]

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