History, Culture & Heritage-Recoletos

Nuestra Señora de la Salud enthronement and book launching (INTRO VTR)

By Frei Bo / December 7, 2016 / Comments Off on Nuestra Señora de la Salud enthronement and book launching (INTRO VTR)
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La Salud schedule of events

By Frei Bo / November 29, 2016 / Comments Off on La Salud schedule of events
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Venerable Alfonso Gallegos [Biography]

By Frei Bo / November 22, 2016 / Comments Off on Venerable Alfonso Gallegos [Biography]

Alfonso Gallegos was born during hard times.  The Great Depression of the 1930’s was worldwide. It was made more excruciating in the United States of America when the dry spell, the longest in modern American history, struck the Great Plains, affecting mainly the Midwest and the Southwest, the states of Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and New…

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Recoletos de Cavite 400 High Mass at Imus Cathedral

By Frei Bo / August 26, 2016 / Comments Off on Recoletos de Cavite 400 High Mass at Imus Cathedral
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Conference on Fr. Mauricio Ferrero

By Frei Bo / August 25, 2016 / Comments Off on Conference on Fr. Mauricio Ferrero

On the feast of St. Monica, the pious mother of St. Augustine, August 27,  the 2nd round of the lecture series on the Life and works of Padre Mauricio Ferrero, OAR, whose centennial death anniversary is celebrated, will be held at the UNO-R President’s Hall at 8 am.

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Recoletos de Cavite: 400 years of continuing evangelization

By Frei Bo / August 25, 2016 / Comments Off on Recoletos de Cavite: 400 years of continuing evangelization

This year’s celebration of the Solemnity of St. Ezekiel Moreno took a deeper significance for the entire Province. Commencing the opening of the celebration of the Quadricentenary in Cavite, the Solemn Feast of St. Ezekiel Moreno was marked with a concelebrated Mass last August 19, 2016 at Our Lady of the Pillar Parish. The theme…

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Recoletos de Cavite “Caracol” at Imus Cathedral

By Frei Bo / August 21, 2016 / Comments Off on Recoletos de Cavite “Caracol” at Imus Cathedral
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The Spires of San Sebastian

By Frei Bo / August 17, 2016 / Comments Off on The Spires of San Sebastian

Publisher’s Note: This article comprises one of the chapters of the book: AUGUSTINIAN RECOLLECTS IN THE PHILIPPINES: HAGIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY. The publisher saw it appropriate to re-publish in time for the 125th Anniversary Celebration of the all-steel Church Basilica. Standing loftily out there in the heart of Manila are the grandiose slender spires of a…

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St. Ezekiel Moreno

By Frei Bo / August 17, 2016 / Comments Off on St. Ezekiel Moreno

Ezequiél Moreno y Díaz, OAR was a member of the Order of Augustinian Recollects and now venerated as a Saint in the Roman Catholic Church. He was born on April 9, 1848 in Alfaro, La Rioja, Spain and later served as a missionary to the Philippines. He also became the Bishop of Pinara and later…

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Recoletos Turns 400 in Cavite

By Frei Bo / August 11, 2016 / Comments Off on Recoletos Turns 400 in Cavite
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