On June 11, 1686, the galleon "Santo Nino" discovered, twenty-two
leguas from the island of San Juan, a new island, larger than any
of those discovered in Marianas; it is named San Bernabe, because it
was discovered on the day of that saint.
On July 11 the bells were rung in Manila for the arrival of the galleon
"Santa Rosa."
On the twelfth they hanged five Sangleys, who were found guilty in
the mutiny.
On the fourteenth news came that all the people who were in the lancha
that lost its course in Marianas had safely reached port in Cagayan.
On the eighteenth the courier [32] arrived with the mail.
On the nineteenth the auditor Don Diego Calderon died.
On the second of August, Licentiate Don Rafael Tome, a student in
San Jose, died.
On the twenty-seventh, the sloop for Marianas sailed from Cavite;
and Fathers Diego de Zarzosa and Jacinto Garcia, [33] and Brother
Melchor de los Reyes, embarked in it.
On the twenty-sixth, our mail reached Manila. On the twenty-eighth,
that from Roma was opened, and no [provision for our] government
was found.
At the beginning of September, the Augustinians brought suit against
us before the archbishop, regarding the administration of Mariquina.
On the sixth of October, Father Jose Lopez died in Palapag.
On the twelfth the father provincial, Francisco Salgado, [34] and
the father rector, Luis Pimentel, [35] were notified of the judicial
decision by the archbishop--who, declaring himself to be a competent
judge, notwithstanding [our] challenge of his cognizance, although he
had approved our licenses and our administration of the sacraments,
revoked the said licenses, and decreed that no one of the Society
should minister in Mariquina, [36] and that the ministry there should
devolve upon the Augustinians.
On the same day, the twelfth of October, it was decided in a provincial
council that the paths of government should be opened. The first was
entered by Father Geronimo de Ortega, and the second by Father Juan
Andres de Palavicino; but, on account of the death of both these,
Father Luis Pimentel--at the time, rector of the college of San
Ignacio--began to govern.
On the thirteenth of October, the armada entered the port of Cavite.
On the fifteenth, Father Antonio Jaramillo [37] began to officiate
as rector of the college of Manila.
On the eighteenth of October, a decree was made known to the provisor,
who had gone to Mariquina and Pasig, forbidding any official whatever
of the archbishopric from taking action in matters pertaining to the
lawsuit of Mariquina.
On the twenty-first, a decree was made known to the archbishop strictly
charging him that he must refrain from taking action in the lawsuit
of Mariquina, and that he must exhibit the records.
On the eighteenth of December, the archbishop was notified and charged
not to disturb us in the Mariquina affair. On the nineteenth, a similar
charge was laid upon the prior of Pasig; and another, on the twentieth,
on the prior-general of the Augustinians.
On the same day, the twentieth of December, the archbishop sent a
denunciation of excommunication, with the curse of God--Father, Son,
and Holy Spirit--and his own, and that of the apostles Peter and Paul,
to the governor and to Auditor Bolivar, in order that they should
not interfere in the Mariquina affair.