Hipólito de Villegas in charge of negotiating the financial support from the Buenos Ayres government. He finally returned to Chile with the army in 1817, and was appointed Minister of Finance by Bernardo O'Higgins, a position he held from February 18, 1817 until March 30, 1818. As such, he drafted the first budget for the new republic. He was again elected a deputy, this time for "Huasco", in 1823, but resigned a month later after the exile of O'Higgins. He withdrew from public life after that until his death at the age of 77. Hipólito de Villegas Hipólito de Villegas y Fernández Manzanares
Martha de San Bernardo colony of Macau. Together with several Spanish postulants, she was formally received into the Colettine Order onboard a ship sailing the South China Sea, at which time she was given the religious name by which she is now known. The precise details of Mother De San Bernardo's death are unrecorded. The Colettines officially give the years 1639-40, saying that she died in Macau while on mission. The cause for Martha de San Bernardo's canonization has been put forward, but it is still awaiting approval by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints of the Holy See. Martha de San Bernardo