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1. Religion in Spanish Era
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2. Pre-colonial Spanish era
The creator of the earth Bathala God / Dios
and superior of all deities
Anitos (tagalog) Santo / Santa
Diwata (Visaya)
Place of worship or Nature/ house of the Church
rituals chief
Babylan or katalonan Priest/ Pare/ Padre
(male or female) (male)
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3. UNION OF CHURCH AND STATE
• Enabled the archbishop and the head of the
religious
orders to occupy significant position in the central
government.
• Exercised multifarious political and economic,
patently non-spiritual powers.
• Controlled the educational system, supervised the
collection of taxes, controlled municipal election and
etch.
• Caused much oppression and suffering among the
masses.
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4. Religious result
• Pax Hispanica was facilitated by the missionaries.
• Remained to convert the native to Christianity
• Soldiers were very few to maintain Spanish authority
• Scarcity in numbers did not present a serious problem.
• The entire archipelago was apportioned among the
different religious orders, the Augustinian, the
Franciscans, Jesuits, the Dominicans and the
recollects.
• The Filipino converted easily to the new faith
• Catholicism did not entirely displace the pre colonial
religion
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5. Religion uprising
• Used the church not for spiritual and
charitable purposes but to entrench
Spanish power in the colony, impelled
some Filipinos to found another religion
under native supervision.
• The racial prejudice of many Spanish friars
alienated countless Filipinos from
Christianity.
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6. THE BEGINNING OF CHRISTIANITY
• Arrival of the five Augustinians who
accompanied by Legazpi expedition 1565.
• Conversion baptizing the pagan natives to
the Christian faith.
• Fray Juan de Alba (70), and Fray Alonzo
Jimenez (middle-aged).
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7. Augustinians In Bikol
• Fray Jimenez embarked with the
expedition headed by captain Luis
Enriquez de Guzman.
• Masbate, Ticao and Burias where he
preached and made converts.
• Baptized a powerful chieftain who had 49
children.
• “TIERRA DE CAMARINES”
• Bato lake or Rancheria of kakalingo.
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8. The Franciscans
• Fray Diego de Herrera need for more
missionaries so he requested to king Philip
II to send more missionaries.
• A band of Franciscans bound for Solomon
island, stopped for a while in Mexico then
entered Philippine waters.
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9. The Coming to Bicol
• Friars Pablo de Jesus and Bartolome Ruiz
• They entered the Bikol river district and
made their residence in the prosperous
native village in Naga.
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10. The Reduccion
• Adopted the system known as “reduccion”
(Reduction).
• Compelled the natives scattered in far-
flung areas to congregate in strategic site
and form a town.
• Alcalde Mayor of Caceres, Don Juan de
Bustamante call into consultation of the
villa to build their respective towns and
churches.
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11. The Reduccion
• Both the encomenderos and the natives
were to contribute their share in the
construction of these buildings who would
be receiving stipends fixed at ₱ 100.00
fanegas of rice.
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12. Obstacles and Triumphs of Christianity
• A group of 10 Augustinian missionaries
and 100 Spanish passenger on board the
galleon Espiritu Santo met a violent storm
while passing close to the shore of
Catanduanes. Many were killed but some
20 to 30 persons reached the shore.
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13. GROWTH OF CHRISTIANITY
• Naga Cathedral
-1595, Constructed close to the bank of the
Bicol river.
-it’s closeness to the river and the humidity
were considered to have greatly affected the
premature deterioration of the building.
-the new cathedral was completed on 1825 and
place where it stands now.
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14. GROWTH OF CHRISTIANITY
• Second Wave of Evangelization
• Franciscans
• Recollects
• Jesuit
• Hospital De San Lazaro
– A revolution in the understanding and
treatment of sickness was introduced in
scientific way.
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15. GROWTH OF CHRISTIANITY
• Franciscan Saint in Bicol
– St. Francisco de la Parilla
– Spent some years as infirmarian of the
convent in Camalig Albay Church.
– Canonized by Pope Pious IX
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