GRP 2 - Mozo
GRP 2 - Mozo
GRP 2 - Mozo
A. IGOLOT/IGOROT
Caste of Chinese who had come over
with pirate Limahon to conquer those
islands; and being conquered, he escaped
with those whom he could gather, those
who could taking refuge in these
mountains, in which they have multiplied
exceedingly.
Missions of the Provinces of Ilocos and
Pangasinan in General
A. IGOLOT/IGORROT
Limahon
- A.K.A Limahong,
Lim Ah Hong, Lin Tao
Kien
- A Chinese pirate
who invaded the
northern islands of the
Philippines and tried to
seize the City of Manila
from the Spanish in 1574
Missions of the Provinces of Ilocos and
Pangasinan in General
A. IGOLOT/IGORROT
Their fierceness and cruelty is
unequated, their only desire is to take
captives
Other natives are harassed by the
Igolots
Continued until past year of 1775
Missions of the Provinces of Ilocos and
Pangasinan in General
B.TINGGUIAN
(‘tee-ng-yan’)
Malaysian word
Tinggi/Tingue,
meaning
mountains/elevated
place and
mountaineers
Missions of the Provinces of Ilocos and
Pangasinan in General
B.TINGGUIAN
At present times, they’re
known as the Itneg tribe
which occupies the most
part of ABRA province.
Extends about 40 leguas
along the same mountains
even trenching upon the
Ilocos province.
Missions of the Provinces of Ilocos and
Pangasinan in General
B. TINGGUIAN
More tractable, gentle, industrious
Maintain a much more civilized conditions
for they have much intercourse with the
Christians in whose vicinity they live
More open to teachings of the religious
156 natives were converted to Christianity in
two years
Missions of the Provinces of Ilocos and
Pangasinan in General
C. APAYAO
Extending about 30
leguas which consist
of many thousands of
souls
In a great degree,
they surpasses the
Igolot cruelty,
bloodthirstiness, and
barbarism
Missions of the Provinces of Ilocos and
Pangasinan in General
C. APAYAO
They can place a thousand ambushes in the
roads.
Do not spare any person not matter of what
rank or condition he may be.
FUNERALS AND OBSEQUIES
-They do not celebrate the funerals and
obsequies of their dead but only those of their
chiefs and other person they pay respect.
Missions of the Provinces of Ilocos and
Pangasinan in General
C. APAYAO
They believe that the shades (manes) of
the deceased take delight in human blood
hence, they endeavor to give them (dead
chief and respectable persons) this
pleasure by killing people (greater or less
number).
Missions of the Provinces of Ilocos and
Pangasinan in General
C. APAYAO
In order achieve this, they have to
capture men or people as soon as the
dying man ceased to breath
They moved down the mountains well-
armed with considerable number of men
then hide in the bush waiting for passer-by
as their target.
Missions of the Provinces of Ilocos and
Pangasinan in General
C. APAYAO
As soon as there targets came, they attack
them with javelins, cut their heads, and bring
them to the dead.
They celebrate their sort of banquet which
they eat and drink like beast then they
complete the burial.
They place some portion of food and drink
in the tomb.
Missions of the Provinces of Ilocos and
Pangasinan in General
C. APAYAO
They bury with the corpse with those
heads and these satisfied the shades of
their dead. This signifies that whatever
they may undertake will have a prosperous
issue
Missions of the Provinces of Ilocos and
Pangasinan in General
RESULTS OF MISSIONARY WORK AMONG
THE APAYAO TRIBE IN THE EARLY DAYS
1660 - Don Diego de Salcedo was the governor of
the island
- 2 religious entered the territory of the Igorrots
and established a small military post with a church
dedicated to archangel St. Michael in a place called
Cayam
-they only converted exceedingly small numbers of
native
Missions of the Provinces of Ilocos and
Pangasinan in General
RESULTS OF MISSIONARY WORK AMONG
THESE 4 TRIBE IN THE EARLY DAYS
D. ADANG
Find themselves less
powerful
They dwell in
inaccessible places
Maintain their
dialect
CHAPTER 4: THE MISSIONS OF
ILOCOS, IN ESPECIAL
Missionaries involved
a. Fray Joseph Herice “Hunter of Souls”
b. Fray Jacinto Rivera
c. Fray Nicolas Fabro
d. Fray Manuel Madariaga
The first mission was established in 1720
They formed a village (Adang tribe & Apayaos)
CHAPTER 4: THE MISSIONS OF ILOCOS,
IN ESPECIAL
CHAPTER 5: THE MISSIONS TO THE
TINGGUIANS
Father Fabro formed a village of converts which he
called “San Juan”
-He was eventually crippled by exposure and
hardship
-Father Madriaga came to his aid despite bad health
Madriaga formed a village in Dingras he called
“Santiago”
Father Juan Solorzano was also sent to this mission-
he was the most zealous and useful
-Unfortunately, he contacted a fever which ended his
life four days later.
CHAPTER 6: THE MISSIONS TO THE
IGOLOT TRIBE IN ESPECIAL
These BARBARIANS WOULD NOT ALLOW
the missionaries to settle in their country but some
were converted through the labors of outside
missionaries.
Barbarous custom: BURIAL PRACTICES
a. not giving burial until they consumed what
the dead had left in gluttony
b. make enormous bonfire about the corpse
c. dancing around the corpse
CHAPTER 6: THE MISSIONS TO THE
IGOLOT TRIBE IN ESPECIAL
d. corpse’s head
is resting on his knees
e.10, 15, or 20
days of wake
f. They inter
with the deceased with
some golds and foods
as his provision in his
journey in the after life
CHAPTER 6: THE MISSIONS TO THE
IGOLOT TRIBE IN ESPECIAL
1747 – Augustinian Fray Francisco Cordova was
sent to Agoo (frontier of the Igolots)
The mission is unfruitful labor until the seventh
year where miraculous change occurred during
the visitation of Fray Manuel Carrilo who was
accompanied by Mozo
THE MIRACULOUS CHANGE
-5 chiefs came down and asked Carrilo to send
missionaries
CHAPTER 6: THE MISSIONS TO THE
IGOLOT TRIBE IN ESPECIAL
These chiefs were instructed in faith and
baptized in Manila
Cordova was made superior of the NEW
MISSION with Fray Francisco Romero and Fray
Pedro Vivar as his assistants
- built 2 churches
- convert hundreds of people
Fray Carlos de Horta, Fray Joseph Torres, and Fray
Juan Sanchez- missionaries in other Igolot villages