[32] The present province of Bataán is on the western shore of Manila Bay, being the peninsula formed between that bay and the sea. But the description in the text, together with other mention of Bataán (or Batán) in old documents, makes it evident that the name was applied in Aduarte's time to at least the western part of the delta at the mouth of the Rio Grande de Pampanga, in the southwest part of the present Pampanga province.
[33] Salaries were paid from the royal treasury in installments thrice a year, hence in thirds (tercios).
[34] So in the text, but evidently referring to the beginning only of constructing the new church.
[35] i.e., "Take heed to thyself and to doctrine;" and, "in doing this thou shalt both save thyself and them that hear thee"--both quoted from 1 Timothy, iv, v. 16.
[36] Dias que no son dobles: in church terminology, feast days whereof the canonical offices are observed according to double rite--or duplex feasts, as sometimes styled in English liturgical works. In church calendars, the rite to be followed every day of the year is determined (according to fixed rules) with a view to its greater or less solemnity. The various designations thus employed are: simple, or simplex; semi-double, or semi-duplex; double, or duplex, and these may be minor or major; major double of the second class; and major double of the first class. Of this last sort are the most solemn feasts, as Christmas, Easter, Pentecost; while a feast day of simple rite is of the lowest class.--Rev. T. C. Middleton, O.S.A.
Cf. Addis and Arnold's Catholic Dictionary, art. "Feasts" and "Feria," where full details, and the origin and application of the terms, are given.
[37] Juan de Santo Domingo assumed the Dominican habit in the convent at Salamanca, and later came to the Philippines. He spent two years (1610-12) in the missions of Bataán and Pangasinan, and six years in Manila and Binondo; and in 1618 undertook, but unsuccessfully, to start a mission in Korea. He then remained a little while in Japan, where he was arrested (December 13, 1618) and imprisoned. Condemned to suffer death by torture, he was carried away by a sickness instead (March 19, 1619). He was beatified on July 7, 1867. (Reseña biográfica, i, pp. 207, 208.)
