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- Title:
- Farming Family (Part A)
- Date Created:
- 2021-03-06
- Description:
- We leave Navarrete noting his concern that missionaries had a hard time creating parishes. Residents from several long-established barangays had to be convinced to relocate and create a parish. The parish was built with a central square plaza. The church was on one side and the government administrative office on another. Leaders could build their houses on the other two sides. Once firmly established the religious parish could be made a civil entity, a town. Public management was easier with people gathered in one place rather than scattered. Priests found it easier to enforce church education, festivals, tithing, church building and cleaning. By law no one could leave a parish, even temporarily without permission from the parish priest. But a town also made it easier for the tribute collector to gather the rice, textile and, later, coin due the King. Natives preferred to stay far away. Missionaries followed model Spanish town planning. Each family was given an identical amount of land to live and raise food on. They did not own the land. The King owned everything. A parish-town had an area cultivated in common by all residents for the town’s upkeep. Spaniards refused to farm and preferred to trade.
- Subjects:
- Philippines -- History -- 1521-1896 City planning -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church Parishes (Canon law) Parishes (Local government)
- Exhibition:
- 100 Minus 8
- Source:
- Detail from “Man and Woman Riding a Carabao”. Fernando Amorsolo. 1956. Dr. Eleuterio Pascual Collection.
- Type:
- Image;Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Farming Family (Part A)", Philippine Food History, Felice P. Sta. Maria
- Reference Link:
- felicepstamaria.net/items/coll190.html