April 28, 2021
The Augustinian friars, being the first missionaries to be in contact with the (Filipino) Indios forty-four years after Magellan was killed in Cebu, have a handful of materials that narrate their interactions with the natives.
April 27, 2021
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) released its Pastoral Exhortation in 2012 with the subtitle “Looking Forward to Our Five Hundredth,” a pastoral reference to the quincentennial of Christianity’s introduction in the Philippines. The Augustinians participate in the celebration of the faith with the 500 years of Santo Niño’s arrival which is believed to be the image presented by Magellan to Humabon’s consort after the occasion.
October 29, 2020
Carcar's church which owns half of Carcar’s hilltop plaza with five religious landmarks fronting it and the convent was elevated to the Archdiocesan Shrine of St. Catherine of Alexandria on September 6, 2006, by the Archbishop of Cebu at that time, His Eminence Ricardo J. Cardinal Vidal
October 29, 2020
“The first monastery in the Philippine Islands,” a national shrine, and the "house" of Cebu's Sto. Nino, the Basilica Minore del Sto. Nino de Cebu has been conferred the title of Basilica Minore by the Pope Paul VI. Know more about this Augustinian-built structure on this Pagsubay vlog.
September 1, 2020
Augustinian priest Fray Martin de Rada - one of the five Augustinian friars who accompanied the expedition of Miguel Lopez de Legazpi and Fray Andres de Urdaneta - was instrumental in the Christianization of Cebu, (and later in the Philippines) in 1565 and decades afterwards.
September 1, 2020
The Order of St. Augustine – originally known as the Order of the Hermits of St. Augustine – shed off their hermetic character and transformed themselves into evangelists of what was then called The New World (the Americas, Africa, and Asia) starting from the 16th century.