LESSON 4:

CUSTOMS OF
TAGALOG
TERMS USED:

• Gobernadorcillo- municipal judge or governor in the Philippines during

the Spanish colonial period.
• Friars- a member of any of certain religious order of men, especially the
four mendicant orders: (Augustinians, Carmelites, Dominicans, and
Franciscan).
• Pueblo- (Spanish:village) :
 Relacion de las Costumbres de los Tagalogs
(1589) –Fray Juan de Plasencia
Other friars and colonial officials who also wrote about Filipinos which further enrich our
knowledge of Philippine History during Spanish period:
• Relacion de las Islas Filipinas (1582) –Miguel de Loarca
• Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas –Antonio de Morga
• Relacion de las Islas Filipinas (1604) – Fr.Pedro Chirino
• Historia General (1751) –Fr. Juan Delgado
• Labor Evangelica (1663) –Fr. Francisco Colin
• Historia natural del sitio, fertilidad y calidad de las Islas e Indios de Bisayas (1668) – Fr.
Francisco Ignacio Alcina
 Fray Juan de Plasencia
 Joan de Portocarrero (Real name)
 Spanish friar of the Franciscan Order
 He came with the first batch of Franciscan Missionaries in the Philippines
in 1578.
 He believe that a catechism or explaining the basic tenets of Catholic faith
is another very important function of a missionary.
 Died in Liliw, Laguna (1590)
Doctrina Christiana en Lengua Española y
Tagala

 First printed book in the Philippines in 1593

 Original document at:

Archivo General de Indias (A.G.I)

Seville, Spain

Source: https://andalucia.com
 Duplicate copy at:

Archivo Franciscano Ibero-Oriental (A.F.I.O)

Madrid, Spain

Source: https://andalucia.com