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- Title:
- RELIGIOUS EDUCATION cont.
- Date Created:
- 2021-07-13
- Description:
- Murillo Velarde records that many indios not only heard mass daily but recited the rosary even while sailing. As the Conquista was to be declared done, indios were offering the first-fruits of their harvests as in the first century. Now they carried images and shrouds to bless the seed-sowing. They used holy water and set up holy crosses at home, on roads, in grain fields. They gave food to the poor on Holy Thursday. Perhaps because the Last Supper is recalled. During Holy Week, little altars adorned with prints and images [santos] were erected at home. Children to be buried were dressed like angels, their bodies “neatly adorned with birds’ wings, palm leaves, wreaths, flowers, lights”. If the parents were poor, members of the community aided them. At the tail end of the Conquista there is a sense of religious ritual characterising the Jesuit parishes. One must not lose sight of counterpoints: the compulsory tributes paid to government and church, the injustices faced by indios when harvests were compromised, and the upsurge in gambling (cards, dice, cockfighting). One report signed by one priest per religious order in 1701 (before Murillo Velarde’s book) regrets that some villages more than a century old were in the “same poverty as are villages that are more recent and less encouraged by the ecclesiastical ministers and civil officials”
- 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 cont.", Philippine Food History, Felice P. Sta. Maria
- Reference Link:
- felicepstamaria.net/items/coll260.html