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- Title:
- Dugong Dinner (Part 3)
- Date Created:
- 2021-02-10
- Description:
- The 80 missionaries stranded at Palapa, Samar were divided into 7 bands each put on a boat with a skilled pilot and stocked with supplies for several days. Upon reaching Manila, they all praised Fr. Melchor “reared in so holy a school as that of the Society of Jesus – where, although one is taught all kinds of knowledge completely, we can say that charity is that which is not taught, because it is inspired.” It took them 2 months to reach the capital due to bad weather. Upon reaching Luzon, they began their long walk over difficult roads and pathways, none paved at the time. Thankfully they made stops at Franciscan missions. In 1665 there were just over 70 missions in the entire archipelago. New missionaries would bring their religion into far off pagan areas where there was still head-hunting, take the place of elder missionaries who could no longer remain in health-challenging environs, fill long vacancies at missions where new Christians could revert to paganism, and also teach in the convents of Intramuros. In the late 1600s, missionaries were still impassioned by the asceticism and zeal of the late Renaissance and Counter Reformation movement. Simple Spanish cuisine reached native communities where priests proselytised. Philippine cuisine did not yet have sufficient access to foreign influences it could react to.
- Subjects:
- Catholic Church -- Missions -- Philippines Melchor de los Reyes Cooking, Spanish Philippines -- Colonial Influence
- Exhibition:
- 100 Minus 8
- Source:
- Frontispiece of the book from where our food vignette was taken: La Historia de la Provincia del Santo Rosario de Filipinas, Japan y China del Sagrado Orden de Predicadores. Baltasar de Santa Cruz, OP. 1693.
- Type:
- Image;Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Dugong Dinner (Part 3)", Philippine Food History, Felice P. Sta. Maria
- Reference Link:
- felicepstamaria.net/items/coll183.html