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Diego Aduarte

1569–1636

A Dominican missionary in Asia and an early chronicler of the Spanish presence in the Philippines, he is remembered for writing one of the key histories of the Dominican province in the region.

3 Audiobooks

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 of 55, 1640 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

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 of 55, 1640 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

by Diego Aduarte, Antonio Alvarez de Abreu

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume 31, 1640 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

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume 31, 1640 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

by Diego Aduarte

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume 32, 1640 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.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume 32, 1640 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.

by Diego Aduarte

About the author

Born in Zaragoza, Diego Aduarte was a Spanish Dominican friar, missionary, and historian associated with the early Catholic missions in the Philippines and nearby parts of Asia. Sources consistently describe him as a member of the Dominican Order who traveled to the Philippines in the 1590s and later became an important church figure there.

He is best known for his history of the Dominican province of the Holy Rosary in the Philippines, Japan, and China, a work valued for its firsthand perspective on missionary life, travel, and religious institutions in the early seventeenth century. That writing has helped preserve details about the period's cross-cultural encounters and the growth of Spanish religious influence in Asia.

Some sources vary slightly on exact dates, but they agree that he lived from roughly 1569 or 1570 until 1636 and that he died in the Philippines, where he had also served as bishop of Nueva Segovia. No suitable confirmed portrait image was found on the page reviewed.