ADUARTE, DIEGO. - Spanish Dominican, b. in Saragossa in 1566. After completing his studies at Alcalá and entering the Order in 1585, ten years later he went as a missionary to the Philippines, where he later became bishop of Nueva Segovia, on the island of Luzon, dying not long afterward, in 1635, or, according to others, in 1637 or even 1639. In the dispute between the natives and the Spanish authorities he took a decided stand on the side of the former.

He wrote several accounts of the Japanese persecutions of the third and fourth decades of the 17th century, but he is especially deserving of credit for the historiography of the Dominican apostolate in the Far East through his Historia de la Provincia del SS. Rosario de la Orden dos Frailes Predicatores en las Islas Philipinas, Japón y China, published posthumously in 1640.

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BIBL.: J. Ferrando, Historia de los PP. Dominicos en las Islas Philipinas y en sus Misiones del Japón, China, Tunghin y Formosa, Madrid 1870; Revista biográfica de las Religiosas de la Provincia del SS. Rosario de Philipinas, I, Manila 1891, p. 148 ff.; G. Dindinger, Bibliogr. Miss., IX (1931), p. 427.

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