The archipelago of Belau (Palau), is in the Pacific Ocean, near the Philippine coast ,was discovered by Gonzalo Gomez de Espinosa, who had traveled around the world with Magallahes.
After the death of Admiral, Espinosa and his sailors came on April 6th, 1522 from Tidore, tries to return to America via the Pacific ocean and on their journey they saw one of the islands of Belau archipelago, probably Sonsorol.
He was also sighted the archipelago by Ruy Lopez de Vilalobos in 1543, when he was traveling from Mexico to Luzon and was seen by Francis Drake in the summer of 1579.
These islands together with the Carolinas and the Marianas were Spanish until its sale to Germany in 1899, for the price of 25,000,000 pts.
550 km. South of Koror the capital of Belau, are the southwest islands, Sonsorol with an adjacent island Fana, further south are Pulo Anna, Merir, Hotsarihie and Tobi (Hatohobei) an island surrounded by a marine reef, with an area of 600 square meters and twenty people.
The twenty islanders speak the "Tobian" language, that can be understood in part by the residents of the Sonsorol island, language that is totally different from "Palauan" spoken in the northern islands of Belau.
The tobian's living from fishing, taro, copra, and what little they grow for their livelihood.
The Tobi sovereignty extends to the reef Hotsarihie (Helen Reef), which covers an offshore area slightly more than 163 km², there on the central island of only 0.03 km² three men stand guard to prevent fish poaching and to ensure the conservation of the reef.
Also extended its dominion over Pieraurou (Transit reef), which reads as its constitution, should be at 132 º 32 'and 2 ° 47', this island simply does not exist, instead there is only water, is a phantom island.
Trying to understand their way of life of the inhabitants. I discover they are catholic and have spanish names, like Pedro, Victor, Emilio, Nestor or Fernando.
Henry Wilson took, the first extended contact with the northern Palauans, command of the "Antelope", in August 1783 coming from China, sank in one of the northern islands of the archipelago, they lived on the islands for three months until they could build a new boat and return to China, the interesting relationship of the shipwreck and life with the Indians can read in google books.
He was also sighted the archipelago by Ruy Lopez de Vilalobos in 1543, when he was traveling from Mexico to Luzon and was seen by Francis Drake in the summer of 1579.
These islands together with the Carolinas and the Marianas were Spanish until its sale to Germany in 1899, for the price of 25,000,000 pts.
550 km. South of Koror the capital of Belau, are the southwest islands, Sonsorol with an adjacent island Fana, further south are Pulo Anna, Merir, Hotsarihie and Tobi (Hatohobei) an island surrounded by a marine reef, with an area of 600 square meters and twenty people.
The twenty islanders speak the "Tobian" language, that can be understood in part by the residents of the Sonsorol island, language that is totally different from "Palauan" spoken in the northern islands of Belau.
The tobian's living from fishing, taro, copra, and what little they grow for their livelihood.
The Tobi sovereignty extends to the reef Hotsarihie (Helen Reef), which covers an offshore area slightly more than 163 km², there on the central island of only 0.03 km² three men stand guard to prevent fish poaching and to ensure the conservation of the reef.
Also extended its dominion over Pieraurou (Transit reef), which reads as its constitution, should be at 132 º 32 'and 2 ° 47', this island simply does not exist, instead there is only water, is a phantom island.
Trying to understand their way of life of the inhabitants. I discover they are catholic and have spanish names, like Pedro, Victor, Emilio, Nestor or Fernando.
Henry Wilson took, the first extended contact with the northern Palauans, command of the "Antelope", in August 1783 coming from China, sank in one of the northern islands of the archipelago, they lived on the islands for three months until they could build a new boat and return to China, the interesting relationship of the shipwreck and life with the Indians can read in google books.
In 1836 Horace Holden and his crew were shipwrecked on the whaler "Mentor" near Kayangel reef in the northern archipelago, pursued by the Indians, sailed to reach Babeldaob island, six months later three Palauan and three sailors managed to escape and dragged by a storm, finally arrived to the island of Tobi, there were treated like slaves, until two years later, in November 1834, Holden and one of his companions, could reach with a canoe, the English ship Britannia, that passed near the island. You can read this History in google books.
With the Spanish domination came the Capuchin friars, after the sale of the islands to Germany in 1899, the Spanish were replaced by German Capuchins.
In 1914 the Japanese, allies of the British in the first world war, invaded the islands in order to integrate the archipelago to the rising sun empire, practiced a policy of immigration and cultural domination. The Capuchins left the islands and arrived the Jesuits were already established in Japan.
Fray Marino de la Hoz del Canto, born in 1886, was ordained as a Jesuit missionary and set off with 22 other colleagues to the east, came to the Belau islands in 1921 with Indalecio Llera, Jose Gogenola and Emilio José Villar and toured together the north islands, preaching Catholicism.
In 1914 the Japanese, allies of the British in the first world war, invaded the islands in order to integrate the archipelago to the rising sun empire, practiced a policy of immigration and cultural domination. The Capuchins left the islands and arrived the Jesuits were already established in Japan.
Fray Marino de la Hoz del Canto, born in 1886, was ordained as a Jesuit missionary and set off with 22 other colleagues to the east, came to the Belau islands in 1921 with Indalecio Llera, Jose Gogenola and Emilio José Villar and toured together the north islands, preaching Catholicism.
In 1930 Marino de la Hoz moved to the southern islands, first to Sonsorol and then to Tobi, where he converted most of the population and gave the baptism to the Indians.
Moved in those faraway places, Marino avoid the Spanish civil war (1936-39), but when World War II, came he found himself living on the wrong side.
In 1941 the Japanese hostilities broke out with the attack against Americans at Pearl Harbor (Bahia de Quimper) and the Jesuits Marino de la Hoz, Elias Fernandez and Emilio Villar immediately suffered the consequences of war and were first deported by the Japanese to Koror capital of Babeldoab.
When the American fleet was approaching the Pacific archipelago of Belau, the Japanese moved the missionaries into a Ngatpang in the north of the island of Babeldoab, never heard of them, so it is assumed that the Jesuits were victims of Japanese troops, along with some American pilots and a palauan family that had supported them.
Belau Islands were conquered by American troops in 1944, and were in the UN escrow until it gained independence the first of October 1994.
Despite having done some searches, they could not find the bodies of dead Jesuits.
You can read here the teachings of Father Marino.
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