Title:
AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT cont.
Date Created:
2021-07-08
Description:
Vicente de Salazar, OP continues in his Historia de el Santissimo Rosario (Manila, 1742) that plows were also brought to encourage the Zambals to live in parishes. Salaried indios from other provinces were brought in to teach Zambals how to use the new tools as well as to help start agriculture. When the first rice crop headed, some Zambals “refused to accept the land because it was not reaped. But others, having the profit plainly in sight, set to reap....” The missionaries also plowed knowing fields for food “was compulsory in order to reduce [the Zambals] to a civilised life and to a good government.” The priests defended them against soldiers. It won them over and the Zambals became mild, gentle, peaceful, and “moderated themselves”. Both the cross and the plow aided Christianisation of Filipinas.
Subjects:
Gervasio Gironella Cultivation Missionaries
Exhibition:
Philippine Food 200
Source:
A Dominican in black and white with a Franciscan. Detail. Comunidades religiosas by Jose Lozano. In the Gervasio Gironella Album 1847. Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid Collection.
Type:
Image;Still Image
Format:
image/jpeg
Source
Preferred Citation:
"AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT cont.", Philippine Food History, Felice P. Sta. Maria
Reference Link:
felicepstamaria.net/items/coll258.html