heathen with the light of truth, and to withdraw them from the captivity of Satan.  For the Indians, having been defended by the arms of Castilla and instructed by the religious, became so fond of them that they delivered to them their divatahan, where they built a church, in order to administer baptism to those who were converted.  Salangsang, together with his wife, was the first to receive baptism in the church, and many others followed their example.  That prince, having become a Christian, became a willing subject to the kings of Castilla.  He built a stronghold with sufficient ramparts to defend himself against the stratagems of Corralat.  Finally Ours erected the convent called Cagaiang, where the Indians began to build houses for their dwellings.

He who labored most in the conversion of those people was father Fray Augustin de San Pedro, a son of the convent of Valladolid, and a Portuguese by nationality.  He not only took care of the teaching of the faith, but also instructed the Indians in civilized ways.  Thus did they seem to have been transferred from wild beasts into men.  It happened in a memorable assault that some nearby Indians made at dawn on the village of Cagaiang, with the intention of killing the fathers (that was an attempt of the devil, and he instigated the Indians to do it, in order to break the friendship which those villages had made) that father Fray Jacinto de Jesus Maria was alone in his cell.  The barbarians entering the house killed eight persons who were guarding it.  Making themselves masters of the door, they fought with their campilans and other weapons, aiming thrusts, cuts, and strokes in all directions, so that in the darkness Ours might not hide from them.  But the said father, trusting in God, went out through the midst of them all, without receiving the slightest blow.  It is not difficult for the divine omnipotence to work those miracles, and He is wont to perform them often in order to defend His ministers.  The father hid in a thicket, until after the fury had subsided, when he could place himself in safety.

Sec.  XI

Foundation of the convents of the above-mentioned provinces

We cannot excuse ourselves, for the glory and honor of God, from referring to the souls whom Ours drew from the darkness of heathenism into the light of the Christian religion, in the provinces of Caragha, Butuan, Calamianes, and Cagaiang—­for whose conservation it was thought necessary to found convents, whence the religious set out to overrun the country, administering sacraments, consoling some, subduing others, and always gaining souls for the Lord.  We have not been able to ascertain with certainty in what year they were established, but that amounts to but little.  The order in which they are mentioned in the records of the provincial chapter held at Manila in the year one thousand six hundred and fifty is as follows: