Identifier: philippinelifein00lero (find matches)
Title: Philippine life in town and country
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: LeRoy, James A. (James Alfred), 1875-1909
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Publisher: New York : Putnam
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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no doubt the Indianconceals them as much as he can from his fatherconfessor, but I have on many occasions con-vinced myself of their existence and influence.Who indeed, knowing anything of the credulityof the less instructed classes, and not these alone,among ourselves, can wonder at the state of thereligious mind of the Philippine Indian ? Andso little are the priests themselves wholly freefrom infirmity that a Philippine curate, Mallares,committed and caused to be committed no lessthan fifty-seven assassinations in the town ofMagalang, believing that he should thus save hismother from being bewitched. Mallares wasexecuted in 1840; and in his report the fiscalexpresses his horror of the incredible and bar-barous prodigality of bloodshed by this monster. . . . They are fond of religious dramas,especially of one in Tagalog representing thepassion and death of Christ (translated into thenative dialects, and introduced into the Philip-pines, let it be added, by early missionary friars).
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The Religious Question 129 But these religious representations and gather-ings give rise to scandal and abuse, and the birthof many illegitimate children. The priests havegenerally prohibited these exhibitions at night,and sometimes disperse them, whip in hand; atother times, the singers are denounced, and getflogged for their pains—or pleasures.* Sixty years ago one Apclonio de la Cruz, who,according to some of the Spanish accounts, seemsto have been a sincere fanatic, posed as a newChrist among the Filipinos, and before he andhis followers were secured by a regular militarycampaign he had upturned the entire provinceof Tayabas and adjoining districts of southernLuzon. On a smaller scale, this province wasdisturbed by a very similar impostor in 1903, andSorsogon to the southward is never without somesuch fanatical movements in its less settled parts.A religious society which the Dominican fathersstarted in Pangasinan province and the neigh-bouring districts of Union and Sambales pr

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