Doctrina Christiana, Catechism

On Language, Culture, Catechism A Doctrina Christiana page with Baybayin text (on top) and Español text (below). The pre-Hispanic “Filipino” literature was mainly oral rather than written. Augustinian historian Fray Gaspar de San Agustin wrote in his Conquistas de las Islas Filipinas, 1698: “They have their letters and characters… but never is any ancient writing found among them,…

Bajo la campana

WHEN THE SPANIARDS came to the country, they found the natives living in either lineal or nucleated communities scattered along water routes and river banks, as well as in mountain ridges. In Taytay, the disparate settlements were mainly along lakeshore and waterways leading to the Laguna de Bay. According to Fray Pedro Chirino, Taytay parish priest…

Founded through ‘Reduccion’

MANILA WAS FOUNDED by Miguel Lopez de Legazpi in June 24, 1571. At that time, Taytay and Cainta were important Tagálog towns as regard to the Spanish plan of colonization. Some might point to that earlier period of Spanish exploits as the inception or origin of Taytay town since it belonged to Namayan Kingdom (Santa…