Readings in Philippine History
Author : Horacio De la Costa
Publisher :
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 26,6 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Philippines
ISBN : 9789715690454
Author : Horacio De la Costa
Publisher :
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 26,6 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Philippines
ISBN : 9789715690454
Author : Horacio de la Costa
Publisher : Manila ; New York : Solidaridad Publishing House
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 41,89 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Philippines
ISBN :
Author : Horacio de la Costa
Publisher :
Page : 715 pages
File Size : 18,40 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780674331426
Author : Soledad S. Reyes
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,19 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Authors
ISBN : 9789715507868
Author : Alexandre Coello de la Rosa
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 34,32 MB
Release : 2019-01-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004394877
This essay deals with the missionary work of the Society of Jesus in today’s Micronesia from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Although the Jesuit missionaries wanted to reach Japan and other Pacific islands, such as the Palau and Caroline archipelagos, the crown encouraged them to stay in the Marianas until 1769 (when the Society of Jesus was expelled from the Philippines) to evangelize the native Chamorros as well as to reinforce the Spanish presence on the fringes of the Pacific empire. In 1859, a group of Jesuit missionaries returned to the Philippines, but they never officially set foot on the Marianas during the nineteenth century. It was not until the twentieth century that they went back to Micronesia, taking charge of the mission on the Northern Marianas along with the Caroline and Marshall Islands, thus returning to one of the cradles of Jesuit martyrdom in Oceania.
Author : Leon Ma Guerrero
Publisher : Guerrero Publishing
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 14,90 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Nationalists
ISBN : 9719341874
Author : Jose Rizal
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 940 pages
File Size : 29,70 MB
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1775415627
Filipino national hero Jose Rizal wrote The Social Cancer in Berlin in 1887. Upon his return to his country, he was summoned to the palace by the Governor General because of the subversive ideas his book had inspired in the nation. Rizal wrote of his consequent persecution by the church: "My book made a lot of noise; everywhere, I am asked about it. They wanted to anathematize me ['to excommunicate me'] because of it ... I am considered a German spy, an agent of Bismarck, they say I am a Protestant, a freemason, a sorcerer, a damned soul and evil. It is whispered that I want to draw plans, that I have a foreign passport and that I wander through the streets by night ..."
Author : José Rizal
Publisher :
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 14,7 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Avarice in literature
ISBN :
Classic story of the last days of Spanish rule in the Philippines.
Author : M.c. Halili
Publisher : Rex Bookstore, Inc.
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 11,67 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Philippines
ISBN : 9789712339349
Author : Fabio Morábito
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 34,32 MB
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1635420725
In this poignant novel, a man guilty of a minor offense finds purpose unexpectedly by way of his punishment—reading to others. After an accident—or “the misfortune,” as his cancer-ridden father’s caretaker, Celeste, calls it—Eduardo is sentenced to a year of community service reading to the elderly and disabled. Stripped of his driver’s license and feeling impotent as he nears thirty-five, he leads a dull, lonely life, chatting occasionally with the waitresses of a local restaurant or walking the streets of Cuernavaca. Once a quiet town known for its lush gardens and swimming pools, the “City of Eternal Spring” is now plagued by robberies, kidnappings, and the other myriad forms of violence bred by drug trafficking. At first, Eduardo seems unable to connect. He movingly reads the words of Dostoyevsky, Henry James, Daphne du Maurier, and more, but doesn’t truly understand them. His eccentric listeners—including two brothers, one mute, who moves his lips while the other acts as ventriloquist; deaf parents raising children they don’t know are hearing; and a beautiful, wheelchair-bound mezzo soprano—sense his detachment. Then Eduardo comes across a poem his father had copied by the Mexican poet Isabel Fraire, and it affects him as no literature has before. Through these fascinating characters, like the practical, quick-witted Celeste, who intuitively grasps poetry even though she never learned to read, Fabio Morábito shows how art can help us rediscover meaning in a corrupt, unequal society.