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Showing posts with label Pinoy history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pinoy history. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Philippine History: First Philippine President was a Mason, but....

Thanks to 100% Katolikong Pinoy for the photo and the write-up.  KUDOS!

That is the late president at left with his wife with an unidentified soldier


According to This masonic website (http://www.glphils.org/famous-masons/faguina.htm), Our First President, Emilio Aguinaldo was accepted in the Scotish rite of the Freemasonry. But According to the website of the National Historic Institute (http://www.nhi.gov.ph/downloads/rel0015.pdf) it is claimed that:

"(Cardinal) Santos played an important role in the spiritual life of Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo, hero of the Philippine Revolution against Spain and the first President of the Philippine Republic. Shortly before Aguinaldo died, the Cardinal often visited him at the Veteran’s Memorial Hospital where the sick general had been confined. Aguinaldo had experienced a spiritual crisis when he was made to promise at the deathbed of his wife, Maria, to go back to the Christian fold. So, before his own death, he made a confession to Cardinal Santos “for the first time in more than half a century.”

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Hah!  Take that Masons!  You sworn enemies of the Church!

Friday, April 9, 2010

Today is the Day of Valor

Today is a national holiday in the Philippines.  We commemorate the fallen heroes of World War 2.  The day is called Araw ng Kagitingan or Day of Valor.  You can read more about the background of the holiday by clicking here.

If you also would like to read about the Bataan Death March, click here.

Here is a rare photograph for you.


Here is the newspaper caption of the photo:

MASS FOR HEROES: Bishop James J. Sweeney, center, presided over a solemn high mass in tribute to Bataan heroes, sponsored this morning by the Hawaii Fillipino Victory Fund committee at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace. Among the clergy assisting were, left to right, the Rev. Fathers Victorinus Claesen, Hubert Winthagen, Ildephonse Heibgesand Robert Schoofs.

The photo is courtesy of the Hawai'i War Records Depository Photographs.  For more photos of the war, click here.


I guess the color of the vestments were black since it is a High Mass for the Dead with a prelate in attendance.  Nice cappa magna too.  Servers in lace, wow.


And here's a rare one for you.  The Crescat found this too.  But I found it here in this site.



Low Mass in Bataan during the war.

You can read more about the surrender of Bataan by clicking here.

Thank you to our war veterans who fought for our freedom!

May God grant rest to our dead freedom fighters.

"Hail the victorious dead!" - King Theoden