Catálogo de los religiosos de N.P. S. Agustin de la Provincia del Smo. Nombre de Jesus de Filipinas

desde su establecimiento en estas islas hasta nuestros dias, con algunos datos biográficos de los mismos. Compuesto y ordenado siendo provincial de dicha provincia el M.R.P. Fr. Juan J. Aragonés, por su secretario Fr. Gaspar Cano.

Manila, Imprenta de Ramirez y Giraudier, 1864.

Small quarto, contemporary parchment over boards (slightly bowed; a few ink stains); preliminaries with worm tracks repaired; pp 336; worming in sections, mostly confined to the margins but affecting the text in places and occasionally repaired with resultant minor loss of letters.

The Augustinians, or Austin friars, were the first missionaries to arrive in the Philippines. The navigator Andrés de Urdaneta (1498-1568), an Augustinian friar, was the first prelate in the islands; he founded an apostolate in Cebú in 1565 and became known as the ‘protector of the Indians’ for his sympathetic treatment of the Filipinos. The Augustinian Province of the Most Holy Name of Jesus was established in 1575, an integral part of the first settlements under Miguel López de Legazpi.

Father Gaspar Cano’s work provides a history of the Augustinian Order in the islands, together with short biographies of its most notable missionaries, and a comprehensive list of clerics of the Province of the Most Holy Name of Jesus up until 1864.

Pardo de Tavera, Biblioteca Filipina, 124