Francisco Ignacio Alcina

Francisco Ignacio Alcina was a Spanish Jesuit missionary whose long ministry in the Visayas shaped his work as a historian and chronicler. His major manuscript, *Historia de las Islas e Indios de Bisayas*, documented Visayan history, culture, language, arts, and traditions in the seventeenth century. Because of this sustained engagement with Eastern Visayas, Alcina remains an important early source for studying the region’s precolonial and early colonial past.