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- Title:
- RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
- Date Created:
- 2021-07-13
- Description:
- In 1749 Fr. Pedro Murillo Velarde, SJ published a history of Jesuit missions in Filipinas. The next year it was declared that all the religious, secular or from any order, serviced a total of 1,000,000 converted souls. The Conquista would be deemed over. Velarde’s narrative is being shared to give a sense of how religion occupied much of a community’s time as the Conquista was ending. Everyday all boys and girls up to the age of 14 heard mass. They called it “school” or a “company of the rosary”. At 10 am, a bell sounded and they went to the church and prayed before the blessed sacrament, recited the Salve and the Alabado hymn to the Virgin; left in procession singing prayers. At 2pm they returned to school; at 4 or 5 pm they returned to church, recited the rosary, and sang while processioning out. On Saturdays they were joined by the older teens who still did not pay tribute. On Sundays boys carrying banners went around the village calling residents to church. The minister preached a moral sermon and called the roll to see who indios failed to attend mass. The priests led in every aspect of community life, making one suspect they introduced their home-cooking to parishioners through convent cooks they had trained. As shown in the first century, foods like adobo, tamales, pochero were already concerns of missionaries. Priests wanted fiestas to be especially well celebrated. They raised pig and even cow for fiestas.
- Subjects:
- Pedro Murillo Velarde Conversion Fiesta Children Mass
- Exhibition:
- Philippine Food 200
- Source:
- Facsimile. Frontispiece to Pedro Murillo Velarde’s book,Historia de la provincia de Philipinas. Manila: 1749
- Type:
- Image;Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "RELIGIOUS EDUCATION", Philippine Food History, Felice P. Sta. Maria
- Reference Link:
- felicepstamaria.net/items/coll259.html