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Conversion to Catholicism in the last decade of Spanish rule in Davao was intense, with the pagan natives and the Moros living in remote areas as primary targets. In Mati, the evangelization efforts netted more than what the missionaries expected. Fr. Juan B. Llopart, S.J., reporting...

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In Samal, there’s a clan that carries the surname Uyanguren. The family name, however, has no genealogic relations to Don Jose Oyanguren, the conqueror of Davao City but ac-quired as a result of baptism assigned and entered in church records as official surname of the...

Two decades after the Americans took over the district of Davao—an event that also led to the arrival of American Protestant preachers four years later—the surviving Roman Catholic parishes organized by Spanish missionaries remained under the care of the Jesuits. Cartas y Noticias Edificantes de la...