TY  - ADVS
TI  - Juan Cabo, O.P
KW  - Spaniards
KW  - 1588
KW  - 1593
KW  - 1970
KW  - books
KW  - chinese
KW  - clerics
KW  - dominicans
KW  - europeans
KW  - mexico
KW  - order of preachers
KW  - parian
KW  - religious
KW  - trotoko de la verdad de dios
N1  - The Spanish Dominican who was banished to Manila from Mexico in 1588.  Cobo worked among the Chinese in the Parian, learned Amoy, and wrote  "Trotoko de la Verdad de Dios," one of the first two printed books in the Philippines in 1593.  A native of Consuegra, Toledo, he came to Manila in 1588 and started working on the conversion of the Chinese in the Parian. Also sent a book "Beng Sim Po Cam" to King Philip II.  Died in 1595 in Formosa from a shipwreck after a diplomatic mission to Japan
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