SALAYSAY. Fr. Jose Burgos – Martyr Priest (1837-1872) »

FATHER JOSE BURGOS was born in Vigan, Ilocos Sur, on February 9, 1837, to a Spanish lieutenant in the militia of Ilocos Sur, and Florencia Garcia, a native of Vigan.
Upon his father’s death, young Jose was sent to Manila to study. He enrolled at the San Juan de Letran College; and being an orphan of [...]

The Filipino History that’s Overseas – and that’s Missing (Last Part) »

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(Excerpts [edited] of a speech at the Annual Conference of the Philippine Historical Association [PHA]18 September 2009 —National Museum)

AS local histories are becoming an increasing research endeavor, I hope that some will be interested to document the history of overseas migration from the perspective of the rural birthplace.
We remember what Resil [...]

ESSAY: The Filipino History that’s Overseas – and that’s Missing »

[THE] Philippines has no integrated, credible and authoritative overseas migration history that is linked to Philippine events, to the histories of our many barangays, municipalities and provinces, and to today’s pursuit by government to send as many workers abroad for economic development.
The Philippines has yet to put together, as one panoramic compendium, the various histories [...]

ESSAY: The Filipino History That’s Overseas – And That’s Missing (Part Two) »

IT was documented that in 1587, Filipinos went to North America and arrived in Morro Bay, California, USA on board the galleon ship Nuestra Señora de Esperanza. They were even called “Luzonians,” the “Luzones Indios,” or the Manila Men. There were even Filipino permanent settlers in the United States as early as 1763 when some [...]

ESSAY: The Filipino History That’s Overseas – And That’s Missing »

THE topic comes as a surprise: A national conference about the historicity of Filipino heroism, and ordinary people are included.
This is not to denigrate overseas Filipinos, or even us ordinary Filipinos.
But knowing the established criteria of saying who is a hero, and how historians document a person’s heroism, it will take a lot of deliberations [...]

The Lies of the 1934-1935 Constitutional Convention (Last of Two Parts) »

As I write this, it is Thanksgiving in this land of our exile, and I have a lot to thank for– such as this discovery of the triple cancer, the tripod of a C that continues to gnaw at our mind as a people, depriving us of that collective memory that should have been history's [...]

The Lies of the 1934-1935 Constitutional Convention – I »

THE SUMMER of 2007 in the Philippines was a date with history.

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Tirad Pass: Ditoy ti nakapasagan ni Hen. Gregorio del Pilar »

AGARUP siam a gasut a metro ti kangatona iti lebel ti baybay (above sea level), masarakan ti Tirad Pass, lugar a nakapasagan ti kaubingan ken kamaingelan a Pilipino a heneral a ni Gregorio del Pilar. Masarakan daytoy iti ili ti Gregorio del Pilar, Ilocos Sur. Dati a Concepcion ti nagan daytoy nga upland municipality ti [...]

The Building of the Vigan Cathedral (Last Part) »

APPENDIX B
 
WORK FOR THE CATHEDRAL CONTINUES
Vigan parish possesses a “libro de recibos y gastos” of the “fabrica” of the cathedral, covering the time from 1799 to 1855 with some pages missing.1 The book shows that the cathedral soon after its erection needed repair and big expenses, which the regular income of the parish the [...]

The Building of the Vigan Cathedral (Part XIII) »

ON APRIL 23, 1796, ten days before his death, bishop Ruiz sent his provisor Dr. Don Eustaquio Benson to the Alcalde Don Jose Mariano Cubells requesting him to come so that he could make before him a legal declaration. The Alcalde, together with his two witnesses Don Vicente Ines de Viscarra and Don Mariano de [...]