My dear intellectual and educated brothers and sisters,
To whom I share a delectable interest in our communal history,
Let me say that I do enjoy this thread.
To answer the remark made by Hubag Bohol,
Sir, that is a good point and we all must take into consideration that Gobernador De Legaspi did not make a return trip from Manila to Nueva Espana or to Espana Madre, however, he did, as you stated, make regular correspondence with the Imperial Audencia as well as directly to the Royal Monarch, Felipe II--Rey De Espana y Imperador del Imperio Hispanoles. (Philipp II, The King of Spain and Emperor of the Spanish Empire). This was made known in: "Cartas al Rey Don Felipe II: sobre la expedicion, conquistas y progresos de las islas Felipinas" (Letters to the King Sir Philip II: on the expedition, conquests and progress of the Philippine Islands). The letters are still preserved today at the archives of the indies in Seville, Spain.
Legaspi, who was also the first Gobernador of Las Islas Filipinas also made frequent and regular correspondence with The Viceroyalty of Nueva Espana and the Viceroy as well as with the Imperial Audencia, requesting monetary assistance, as well as military provisions and religious episcopal allignment that led to the conquest of Luzon, the Visayas and most of Northern Mindanao by the time of his death in the late 16th century.
He was so successful that The Audencia once remarked:
"After the islands had been conquered by the sovereign light of the holy gospel which entered therein, the heathen were baptized, the darkness of their paganism was banished and they changed their own for Christian names. The islands also, losing their former name, took--with the change of religion and the baptism of their inhabitants--that of Filipinas Islands, in recognition of the great favors received at the hands of his Majesty Filipe the Second, our sovereign, in whose fortunate time and reign they were conquered, protected and encouraged, as a work and achievement of his royal hands."
Source: Antonio de Morga. "History of the Philippine Islands". Project Gutenburg. Retrieved 2004-12-01. The point I am trying to make, is that there are thousands of historical artifacts, and documents that are in the libraries of Mexico City, (as Legaspi was the mayor of Mexico City prior to his mission to conquor the Philippine Islands, as ordered by The Spanish King, His Imperial Spanish Majesty, Philip II, King of Spain and Lord of the Spanish Realms and Conquored Territories, Who by Grace of God--willed it that Christianity through Spain would supplant the paganism prior to Spain's Christian Crusade).
There may be letters, correspondence between Legaspi and Nueva Espana, as well as to his family members (as he did have 9 children, of whom did settle in Mexico City). I am quite confident that Legaspi definately wrote to them, in the letteres, and to his officers as well as to members of the Peninsulare Class. These letters, documents, would have been stationed, and preserved in one of the many libraries in Mexico and in Seville, Spain (for example).
It only requires a Filipino Historian who is well versed in Spanish (Old Castillian Dialect) to find these letters, papers, and translate them.
A Humble Student,
And a Lover of History,
Lorenzo
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