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There is a book about this far-off island called Sarangani but it is not distant anymore. A historian Ian Christopher B. Alfonso armed with a new way of making sense of names and memories, has relocated it for us. He did this by looking back once more at history or histories that… ....
STO. NInO REPLICA. The turnover of the replica of the image of the Santo Nino de Cebu to the Basilica de la Sagrada Familia officials on the night of Dec. 4, 2021. The replica was presented by the Philippine Consulate General in Barcelona. (Barcelona PCG photo) MANILA - The Philippines has sent the exact replica of Santo Nino de Cebu to Spain with the Basilica de la Sagrada Familia as its first stop, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Thursday. The replica was presented by the Philippine Consulate General in Barcelona during an international mass in the iconic Spanish church last Sunday, which was celebrated by the Apostolic Nuncio to Spain Bernardito Cleopas Auza, a native of Bohol, and the archbishop of Barcelona Cardinal Jose Omella. The original image, also the oldest religious relic in the Philippines, was found in 1565 in what now stands as the Basilica Minore del Santo Nino de Cebu. On December 5, the Sagrada Familia received its exact replica as a gift from the Filipi ....
Food security has become an imperative goal in our pandemic times. It is underscored in one of the two themes of the quincentennial of the coming of Christianity in the Philippines – “humanity” or compassion of our ancestors in saving the sick, starving, undernourished and hopeless crew ....
THY WILL BE DONE Thy Kingdom Come (diptych), pen and ink, acrylic on canvas, 70 x 40 in, by Iggy Rodriguez In September 1521, in a fleet of five ships and 270 men called the Armada de Maluco, Ferdinand Magellan set sail from Spain to discover a westward route across the world in search of spices. It has been half a millennium since that voyage reshaped world trade and our idea of the size and shape of our world. Since March 2021, 500 years later, there have been many activities constituting a global commemoration of this first circumnavigation, which opened up what Portugal considers “the Magellan Route,” a Portuguese feat, Magellan being Portuguese, and which Spain considers its own, even if it has all these years been credited mainly to a Portuguese explorer, not only because it was sponsored and financed by King Charles I, but more because, Magellan only made half the trip He was killed in the Philippines and it was Spanish navigator Juan Sebastián Elcano who ....