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Showing posts with label Masbate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Masbate. Show all posts
10 September 2014
5 June 2010
HISTORY 105: MASBATE
Historical accounts show that the Christianization of the Bicol Region actually began in Masbate in 1569:
Father Alonso Jimenez was the first missionary to the islands of Masbate, Burias, Leyte and Samar. Then he went to Ibalon (Bicol) in the province of Camarines, where he resided many years, and made many religious incursions into Albay and Sorsogon. Fray Jimenez is considered the apostle of the island of Masbate
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