- Casimiro Díaz
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Casimiro Diaz (baseball) ".Father Fray Casimiro Diaz, O.S.A. ["O.S.A." is the Order of St. Augustine.] (1693 - 1746) "Moro Pirates' attacks worsen, 1634." (history, Note 32), Zamboanga City History, webpage: [http://www.zamboanga.com/html/history_1634_moro_attacks.htm ZH-1634] .] was a Spanish friar, of the Augustinian order (vows in 1710), who accompanied the first Spanish expedition to the
Cordillera . "Who is anIgorot ? - FEATURES (January 12, 1999)" (article), Alfred Dizon, Philippine Daily Inquirer, January 1999, webpage: [http://www.travelsmart.net/ph/inquirer/issues/jan99/jan12/features/fea_2.htm TS-f2] .] Casimiro Diaz wrote "Conquistas de las Islas Philipinas" in 1718 (published in Valladolid in 1890). Casimiro Diaz also wrote "Parrocho" (1745). Casimiro Diaz reported, "TheIgorot s are a barbaric people."Life and work
Casimiro Diaz was born in Toledo, Spain in 1693.He took his vows in the convent of San Felipe el Real in 1710, and after arriving at the Philippines, he finished his literary studies. Casimiro Diaz was stationed in the missions at Magalang (1717), later in Mexico (1728), 6 years later in Aráyat (1734), Betis (1735), Minalin (1737), and
Candaba (1740). He was procurator-general (1719), twice provincial secretary (1722), definitor (1725), presiding officer of the chapter (1731), qualifier of the Holy Office, chronicler of the Augustinian province in the islands, reader (1744), and conventual preacher. Casimiro Diaz died in Manila in 1746, having completed many writings.See also
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Saint Augustine
*Augustinian Notes
References
* "The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XXV, 1635-36" (history), webpage: [http://www.mobilebooks.org/?etext=PG019118 MB-118] .
External links
* "The odyssey of Captain Arriola and his discovery of Marcus Island," webpage: [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2375/is_n2_v32/ai_20554493/pg_3 FA-Arriola] .
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