WITH THE coming of the Americans and their new political doctrine of separation of Church and State, there was no more state church like during the Spanish time. The first Protestant sect to arrive in Western Visayas was the Baptists.
In 1900, Dr. Eric Lunda and Braulio Manikan of the American Baptist Missionary Union arrived in Iloilo [...]

IN THE PREVIOUS article, it was pointed out that two of the traits of the early Ilonggo-Bisaya written about by the early Spanish and other foreign writers were their being “maisog” (brave or courageous) and their being “mapisan” (industrious or hardworking). Other prominent traits of the Ilonggos that caught the attention of the colonizers were their [...]

AMONG THE traits of the Ilonggo-Bisaya that the Spaniards had high regards was their being “mapisan” or industrious. Casimiro Diaz, for example, in a detailed account on ecclesiastical and Augustinian affairs, 1630-1640, described the people of Panay as “naturally docile than any other of the pintados, very industrious in their rice farms” (Diaz 1890). A French [...]

A WELL-KNOWN professor and researcher, Filemon Poblador, listed the three greatest poets in Spanish produced by the Philippines. Of the three, one was Iloilo’s greatest poet — Flavio Zaragoza Cano. The other two were Fernando Maria Guerrero and Cecilio Apostol, both from Manila.
Decades ago, Claro M. Recto bestowed distinction on Zaragoza Cano as not only the greatest [...]