MILESTONE 2: LET’S VOLT AND INVESTIGATE

SECTION: 1.1BSP DATE:

GROUP MEMBERS (Last Name, First Name, Middle Name) SCORE
1. Dela Cruz, Juan P.
2. Ponce, Juan S.
3.

1. Who is the Author? (If necessary, give a background check about the writer)
Document Information

Fray Juan de Medina O.S.A

Born in Sevilla and later become an Augustian Missionary and Scholar.
Notable for his work Historia de la Orden De S. Agustin de Estas Islas
Filipinas.

2. Where and when is the document created or published?

The Report of Fray Medina was written in 1630 and printed in Manila (1893)

3. Who is the intended audience of the document?

Initial audience is the Governor General during the period of 1630

4. What was happening at the time in history when this document was created?

The continuation of the Pacification of the Philippines thru conquest or religion

conversion from Native Beliefs to Catholicism. The document also provide
interesting views of the colonial affairs from treasury to hostility of the Muslim
in the Mindanao which also include the Rebellion of Tamblot in Bohol

PRIMARY SOURCE OBSERVE Think Question

DESCRIPTION (What I see) (What I know and predict) (What I want to know)
Primary Source Dela Cruz – When I Dela Cruz – I Dela Cruz – Does the
(Historia de la Orden read the document of encountered the practice of Babalyan
De S. Agustin de Fr. Medina that in Babaylan during the still exist to the
Estas Islas Filipinas) – Bohol even converted TV Show Bagani. But present day?
It is a direct account to Catholicism was during reading the
of Juan de Medina still practicing their document that a Man Ponce – Is there
detailing the events in native religion. can be anointed as a many versions of

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 the Philippines from Ponce – I couldn’t Babaylan to his Philippine Shaman
issue of Treasury to believe that main Banua. Sadly, the from different
the Rebellion in Bohol reason that rebellion Babaylan and his Indigenous Group?
(1621 – 1622). in Bohol (1621 – followers were
1622) began because punished heavily by
Secondary source the Boholanos the Spaniards.
because the wanted to return to
translated provided their Religion. Ponce – to the honest,
by 2 notable this is my first primary
American Historians – source that I
Emma Blair and encountered the
Alexander Robertson. Babaylan that most of
them, I watched on
YouTube or read
some articles on
Aswang Project page
on Facebook. Fr.
Medina also wrote the
incident which is the
Better God – Native
God Asaytono or
Jesus Christ by the
Jesuit Order before
the Rebellion started.

Source:

Blair, E. H., & Robertson, J. A. (2005). The Philippine Islands, 1493–1898. Explorations by early
navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as
related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious
conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth
century. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/16451/16451-h/16451-h.htm.

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