Unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and terrestrial sightings associated with ethereal events and celestial phenomena are a global subject that has drawn attention from the most conservative scientific community. Testimonies of alien abductions, sightings of flying machines, and reports of contact with strangers from the otherworld...
Though majority of the converts drawn by the missionaries to the fold of Christianity were tribesmen, there were also prominent Moro chiefs who supported the founding of reductions. In March 1895, Datu Nonong, the Moro chief of Hijo, conveyed to Fr. Saturnino Urios, SJ, his interest...
The missionaries’ contributions to social order in the Philippines are not far and between. In fact, the early Spanish padres who braved the wilderness of Davao Region, young as they were, were trendsetters, explorers, and intrepid adventurers. Against the odds and with a very limited...
The idea of opening a mission in the region can be traced to an August 10, 1949, letter written by Fr. Yvon Guerin, PME, a former student of Assumption Academy in Campbellton, New Brunswick, Canada, who arrived in Davao in November 1938. It was addressed...
Regarded as the oldest Filipino religious order, Beaterio de la Compania de Jesus (Religious of the Virgin Mary), was found in 1684 in Manila by Venerable Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo with the purpose ‘To seek the greater service and honor of God.’ It is...
Founded in the 1750s, Linas, the first settlement of what is now Governor Generoso, was established by Christian settlers from Cantilan, Surigao del Sur, and Bislig City. In a letter dated July 16, 1891, Jesuit missionary Fr. Juan B. Llopart described the small hamlet’s strategic...
It used to be one of the beautiful places of worship in Samal Island, but on September 14, 1964, the Peñaplata Church, a Catholic edifice, was razed to the ground by a dawn fire that lasted only two hours. The mystery surrounding the blaze remains...
Then known as Hobangon, the settlement of San Jose de Samal, founded in 1882, was described in Jesuit letters as ‘the crown of thorns’ on account of the difficulties the priests had to face before achieving a peaceful arrangement with the Moros and the natives...
Father Pablo Pastells, S.J., co-founder of the Caraga mission, after his November 1887 reassignment to Manila to assume as vice superior of the Jesuits of the islands, opened a communication channel with Dr. Jose P. Rizal, the national hero who was then exiled in Dapitan....
Named after the hometown parish where Spanish conquistador Jose Oyanguren y Cruz was baptized, San Pedro Church, now a metropolitan cathedral, figured in two of the bloodiest postwar attacks, attributed by the media to religious strife between Christians and Muslims. On Easter Sunday, April 19, 1981,...