In certain adjacent islands, called the Illocos, they worshiped the devil, offering him many sacrifices in payment and gratitude for the quantities of gold that he gave them.

Now, by the goodness of God, and by the great industry of the Augustinian fathers--the first to go to those districts, and who have toiled and lived in a praiseworthy manner--and by the Franciscan fathers, who went thither ten years after, all these islands, or the majority of them, have received baptism, and are enrolled under the banner of Jesus Christ.

Those yet outside the faith are so rather for lack of religious instruction and preachers, than by any repugnance of their own.

Last year the Jesuit fathers went thither, and they helped in the work with their wonted labor and zeal.

Now many more religious are going, very learned and apostolic men, of the Dominican order, who will work in that vineyard of the Lord with as great earnestness as they display wherever they go.
Account of certain remarkable things seen in these Filipinas Islands.