Chapter LVII

Curacies and administrations of the bishopric of Cagayan

Curacies

679. The curacies of the seculars in that bishopric are [as follows]: in the province of Cagayan, the curacy of the city and the village of Lallo; in the province of Ilocos, the three curacies of Vigan, Bangued (in the mountains of Labra), and that of San Diego, a mission of the Tinguianes--whose number I am unable to determine, although I have made extraordinary efforts to do so. All the rest of that bishopric is in the charge and under the administration of religious, as follows.

Administrations of religious

680. The calced Augustinian fathers have, in the province of Pangasinan, the village of Agoo, with San Thomas and Aringay, whence the religious go to the neighboring mountains to the conquest of the barbarous Igorrote people; in the village of Bauan, with those of Boua, Dalandan, Caua, and one other fine mission; in the village of Bagnotan, with that of San Juan, and another fine mission. Those administrations number 8,875 souls.

681. In the province of Ilocos, in the village of Namacpacan, with that of Balavan, and a fine mission; in that of Bangar with Tagurin and another mission; in that of Candong, with Santa Lucia; in that of Narbacan, with that of Santa Cruz; in that of Santa Cathalina; in that of Bantay, with those of Ildefonso and Masingal; in that of Cabogao, with Lupog; in that of Sinait, with Badoc; in those of Panay, Batac, San Nicolas, Leyrat, and Dingras, with that of Piric, and an extensive mission of heathen Tinguianes in those mountains, from whom little fruit was obtained until the year 1730. (In the year 1735, through the visit of our father provincial, the very reverend father Fray Piego Vergano, they asked for religious very urgently, begging that some would live in their villages. A great harvest of spiritual fruits is hoped from that.) In the village of Ilduag; in that of Bangui, with other small mission villages; and in that of Bacarra with that of Vera. All those administrations number 51,453 souls.

682. In the province of Pangasinan, the Dominican fathers have their administrations in the villages of Lingayen (the capital of that province), Binalatongan, Calasiao, Mangaldan, Manaoag, Cavili, Malonguey, Telban, Binmaley, Dagupan, Malasiqui, Anguio, Salaza, Sinapog, Paniqui, Camiling, Baruc, Paniaguit, and Pantol; with some visitas, and missions of blacks. The number of souls in all those administrations amount to about 48,000.

683. In the province of Cagayan, in Lallo (the capital of that province): Pata, with Cabacungan and Bangan; Pia, with Maoanan; Nasiping, with Gataran; Malaueg, with its mission of Santa Cruz; Tuvao, with its mission of Tuga; Yguic, with its visita of Amulong; Fotol, with its visita of San Lorenzo, and its mission of Capinatan; Massi; the island of Babuyanes, with the missions of the islands of Batan and Calayan; Cabagan; Tuguegarao; Buguey, with its mission of Vuangac; Tabang; Ytugud, with the mission of Ziffun; Ylagan, with the mission of Tumavini; Aparri; and Camalayugan. The number of soul is about 25,752.

684. The discalced Franciscan religious possess the administration of the village of Palanan, with 1,700 souls, on the opposite coast of Cagayan.

685. There is a fine mission of several barbaric people called Irrayas, Negritos, and Aetas in the mountains of the same opposite coast; and on its shores, from Palanan to Casiguran. The religious are working in their conversion and reduction, at the expense of excessive hardships. The souls converted in various settlements there number about six hundred.

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