ABSTRACT

Luis Pérez’s father, as we have noted, was close to the Dominicans and had requested that he be buried in the Dominican church. His son seems to have been even closer to the Dominicans. It seems particularly significant that Luis Pérez Dasmariñas should have had a Dominican confessor almost immediately after his accession to the governorship, that the Rosary is particularly associated with the Dominicans, and that the statue he commissioned (see below) was donated to a Dominican church. Chirino, says: ‘Don Luís Dasmariñas, son of Gómez Pérez, his successor as Governor, chose as confessor Fr. Fray Juan de San Pedro Mártir, of the Order of Preachers, who suffered for it. The Governor Don Luís was so much in his control that he did nothing, a favor or just decision, without his opinion’. 1 De Morga was also firmly of the view that Luis Pérez was ‘governed in everything by the friars, and particularly by the Dominicans’ as noted above. 2