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Nicomedes Ibanes Vs. Roman Catholic Apostolic Church, Et Al.

NICOMEDES IBANES, ET AL., plaintiffs-appellees, vs. THE ROMAN CATHOLIC APOSTOLIC CHURCH, ET AL., defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. 4695 | 1908-12-12

D E C I S I O N


WILLARD, J.:

The history of the image of the Holy Child of Ternate (Santo Niño de Ternate), to which this case relates, is as follows:

After Kue-Sing, called by the Spaniards of the time a Chinese pirate, had driven the Dutch from Formosa in 1662, he sent an ambassador to Manila, demanding that the Philippines submit to his rule and become one of his tributary states. It w as in the time of Don Sabiniano Manrique de Lara, governor and captain-general. Having refused to submit to the Chinese demand, the captain-general, in preparation for the threatened invasion, ordered the abandonment, not only of the posts held by the...