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The Augustinian Missionaries and the Filipino Indios: Early Contacts, Treatment, and Relations
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 ...
1565: The Year of Amazing Discoveries
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 ...
Pagsubay: Episode 2 – St. Catherine of Alexandria Church, Carcar City
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 ...
Pagsubay: Episode 1 – Basilica Minore del Sto. Niño de Cebu
“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 ...