TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dumol, Paul Arvisu.
TI  - The Manila synod of 1582: the draft of its handbook for confessors 
SN  - 9789715506472
AV  - DS 674 .M314 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Quezon City
PB  - Ateneo de Manila University Press
KW  - Catholic church
KW  - Philippines
N2  - Contains the chronicles of abuses committed to Filipinos by Spanish officials and soldiers as reported to Domingo de Salazar,the first Bishop of the Philippines. The bishop convoked the First Synod of Manila where the assembly identified all the different ways Filipinos were oppressed and determined the cases in which restitution had to be made and how much. The document is also a vivid portrait of the Lascasian generation of missionaries who defended native rights and human dignity.It is the only surviving document produced by the assembly that influenced  Spanish colonial policy in the Philippines crucially for at least the next two centuries
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