In 1668, Calungsod travelled with Spanish Jesuit missionaries to these islands, renamed the Mariana Islands ( " Las Islas de Mariana " ) the year before in honour of both the Virgin Mary and of the Queen Regent of Spain, catechise the native Chamorros.
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Among those of his works still extant are " A Brief Method of Catechising ", first issued in 1594, which in 1644 reached a forty-fourth edition; and a translation from the French of Mathieu Virel entitled " A Learned and Excellent Treatise containing all principal Grounds of the Christian Religion ", the earliest edition of which now remaining is the fourth, published in 1597, and the latest the fourteenth in 1635.
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In 2012, the Archdiocese, in a pastoral letter, announced major structural revisions in the light of falling formal church membership and related fiscal and spiritual difficulties, merging parishes into larger clusters known as " pastoral areas " ( such actions are generally taken because of, among many other factors, decreases in the number of Catholics-namely, baptised and fully catechised Catholics, parochial school enrollment declines, an aging population and fewer children, lack of proper and continuing religious instruction in schools and / or homes, fewer vocations to ordained and religious ministry, and a decline in church attendance and the practice of the faith ).
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:So great was then the fervour of the faith [ Christianity ], as is reported and the desire of the washing of salvation among the nation of the Northumbrians, that Paulinas at a certain time coming with the king and queen to the royal country-seat, which is called Ad Gefrin, stayed with them thirty-six days, fully occupied in catechising and baptising; during which days, from morning till night, he did nothing else but instruct the people resorting from all villages and places, in Christ's saving word; and when instructed, he washed them with the water of absolution in the river Glen which is close.
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The largest is the prose treatise " Last Battell of the Soule in Death " ( Edinburgh, 1628 ), a text written in the " Ars moriendi " tradition to offer solace to those approaching death . " Cleare Forme of Catechising " ( Glasgow, 1639 ) is a children s catechism . " A Sermon of Preparation to the Communion and A Sermon for the Day of the Sacrament " ( Edinburgh, 1629 ) and " Two Orientall Pearles, Grace and Glory " ( Edinburgh, 1629 ) made a small number of Boyd s sermons available in print, but Boyd left over 250 more in manuscript.
