Saysay Bikol

21/01/2025

𝗝𝗔𝗡𝗨𝗔𝗥𝗬 𝟮𝟭 | 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗗𝗔𝗬

152 years ago (1873), Ildefonso Moreno, leader of the Katipunan in Daet and of the 1898 Revolt, was born in Daet, Camarines Norte.

21/01/2025

LOOK: Newly-appointed director for education, Mr. John Aryel dela Paz, convenes the members of the education committee for the first time this year. Present during the meeting were Mr. Gene Kervin S. Borja II and Mr. Marjun Sedeño, former directors for education, Ms. Maria Corazon Rivera, Mr. Rico Saballegue, Ms. Maria Aurora Caballero, and Mr. Ralph Navelino.

The education committee is preparing for the fourth installment of the Bansáyan Teaching Training-Seminar later this year.

Para sa urog kararom pang pagsaysay!

13/01/2025

𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗧 𝗦𝗢𝗟𝗜𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗗𝗔𝗗 𝗕𝗢𝗢𝗞𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗣

The first and second issues of Saysay: The Journal of Bikol History are once again available at Solidaridad Bookshop! 📕📗

Visit their store at 531 Padre Faura St, Ermita, Manila to grab a copy of our journal. We would like to thank the José family and office manager Ms. Jessa Vallecera for having our journal at Solidaridad.

Para sa urog kararom pang pagsaysay!

10/01/2025

𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗜𝗦 𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗚𝗧𝗛 𝗜𝗡 𝗡𝗨𝗠𝗕𝗘𝗥𝗦

Saysay Bikol warmly welcomes SEVENTEEN new members this year!

Alexandra Francesca A. Bichara
Bridgette M. Caballero
Maria Aurora G. Caballero
Shaunnah Ysabel V. Cledera
Jonah Mae R. Eboña
Arque A. Flor
Peter Paul B. Hernandez
Manny S. Israel
Albert Morris Grefaldo
Maria Arlie F. Isidoro
Mico T. Millesca
Ralph C. Navelino
Emmanuel A. Onsay
Domingo D. Palero
Kuh V. Paterno
Rico D. Saballegue
Olive Ann M. Sto. Domingo

As of 10 January 2025, our organization is now 48 members strong! This is the largest number of members we've had since our foundation in 2021. Our lineup is set for our upcoming activities this year which includes Bansáyan Teacher-Training IV and the Saysáyan Lecture Series. We are also releasing the third issue of Saysay: The Journal of Bikol History later this year.

Para sa urog kararom pang pagsaysay!

08/01/2025

𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗔𝗬𝗦𝗔𝗬𝗔𝗡 #𝟭𝟱

The only pharmacist among the fifteen martyrs of Bikol was Don Tomas Prieto y Antonio, a native of Nueva Caceres. He earned his licentiate in pharmacy at the University of Santo Tomas.

07/01/2025

𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗣𝗔𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗦

Saysay: The Journal of Bikol History is now accepting full-length research articles and reviews of recently published books (from 2020 to 2024) on Bikol history for the journal's 2024 issue.

Interested authors may submit their manuscripts through the journal's email address, [email protected]. Please submit a Word file as an attachment to a cover email that contains the author's name, affiliation, and contact details. Please use 𝗦𝗧𝗝𝗕𝗛𝟰 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 (𝗟𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗡𝗮𝗺𝗲) as the subject heading.

Some Additional Guidelines:
1. We accept submissions written in English
2. Font Style: Times New Roman, Font Size: 11, Spacing: Double
3. Citation: Chicago Manual of Style 18th ed. (Author-Date Style)

Full-length research articles will undergo a double blind peer-review process while book reviews will be edited by the journal's editorial team. Accepted manuscripts will be published in the journal's 2024 open issue.

The deadline of submission is on 30 April 2025.

Dyos mabalos sa danay na pag-anduyog sa Saysay: The Journal of Bikol History.

Para sa urog kararom pang pakikipagsaysay!

Image of the Holy Rosary Minor Seminary: Fr. Amador Crespo, CM dated 13 August 1913. From the collection of Michael G. Price, Michigan Center via Wikimedia Commons.

04/01/2025

𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗔𝗬𝗦𝗔𝗬𝗔𝗡 #𝟭𝟱

Which of the fifteen martyrs of Bikol was a pharmacist by profession?

Hint: He was classmates with propagandist Jose Maria Panganiban at the Nueva Caceres Seminary and at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila.

Let us know your answers in the comment section!

Image of the Plaza Quince Martires is from an untitled pamphlet from the 1920s courtesy of Mr. Eufemio Agbayani III of the National Historical Commission of the Philippines.

04/01/2025

𝗝𝗔𝗡𝗨𝗔𝗥𝗬 𝟰 | 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗗𝗔𝗬

128 years ago (1897), eleven of the fifteen martyrs of Bikol were executed by firing squad in Bagumbayan, Manila for their alleged complicity in the Katipunan's revolt against Spain. They were Fr. Inocencio Herrera, Fr. Gabriel Prieto, Fr. Severino Diaz, Manuel Abella, Domingo Abella, Macario Valentin, Tomas Prieto, Mariano Melgarejo, Cornelio Mercado, Camilo Jacob, and Florencio Lerma. The other four martyrs, Leon Hernandez, Ramon Abella, Mariano Arana, and Mariano Ordenanza, either died in prison or were exiled to Bioko Island in Africa.

03/01/2025

The first two issues of Saysay: The Journal of Bikol History are still available at our partner bookstores and establishments. You may grab your copies from:

Roel's Bookshop, Quezon City
Popular Bookstore, Quezon City
Solidaridad Bookshop, Manila
Mt. Cloud Bookshop, Baguio City
Beanbag Coffee-Robinsons, Naga City
The Chancery, Sorsogon City

Interested individuals and institutions may also order directly from us through our email address: [email protected] or [email protected].

Madya na sa danay pang pakikipagsaysay! 📕📘

31/12/2024

𝗗𝗨𝗪𝗔𝗡𝗚 𝗥𝗜𝗕𝗢 𝗠𝗔𝗬 𝗗𝗨𝗪𝗔𝗠𝗣𝗨𝗟𝗢 𝗠𝗔𝗬 𝗟𝗜𝗠𝗔

Para sa urog kararom pang pagsaysay sa taong 2025!

Mabaláog na bagong taon, mga ka-Saysay! 🎆

27/12/2024

𝗦𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗗 𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦

For more details on the application procedure, kindly read the guidelines: https://bit.ly/SaysayBikolApplicationGuidelines2023

You may access the application form here: https://bit.ly/SaysayBikolApplicationForm2025

Application period is from 27 December 2024 to 6 January 2025.

Madya na sa danay na pakikipagsaysay!

27/12/2024

Maogmang kapistahan ni San Juan Evangelista!

Dyos mabalos po Archivo Franciscano Filipino for sharing this beautiful 1966 photograph of the Naga Metropolitan Cathedral. ☺️

𝐈𝐍 𝐏𝐇𝐎𝐓𝐎 | 1966 photograph of the Catedral de San Juan Evangelista, also known as the Naga Cathedral.

Today is the feast of St. John the Evangelist, Titular Patron of The Naga Metropolitan Cathedral.

The design and architectural plan of Naga Cathedral owed back to the 21st bishop of the then Diocese of Caceres, Most. Rev. Bernardo de la Concepción, OFM (1816-1829). This Franciscan bishop had been described as "the planner and the builder," though he himself is not an architect. Before becoming a bishop, the churches of Binangonan and Paco were also built under his supervision during his term in those towns as a parish priest. Aside from being known as a builder, he was also described as the humble, poverty-loving, and virtuous son of St. Francis of Assisi. Bishop de la Concepción died at the age of 77 at the Franciscan infirmary of Naga on October 9, 1829. He was 62 years in the Franciscan Order, 13 years as a Bishop of Caceres, and 50 years in the Philippines.

25/12/2024

Maogma asin mabalaog na Pasko, mga ka-Saysay! 🎄

23/12/2024

LOOK: Saysay Bikol co-founder and president Fr. Francis Tordilla presides over the 8th misa de aguinaldo at the historic Parish and Shrine of Our Lady of Peñafrancia, Naga City last 22 December 2024.

21/12/2024

IN PHOTOS: Saysay Bikol's 11th Board of Directors Meeting held last 20 December 2024 at The Litton Hotel by Carterson, Naga City.

Present during the meeting were Fr. Francis Tordilla (President), Venus Belmonte-Atienza (Secretary), Marie Valen Cortez (Director of Finance), Javier Leonardo V. Rugeria (Director for Research and Publications), John Aryel dela Paz (Director for Education), Gene Kervin Borja II (Director for Membership and Recruitment), and Al Florence Albo (Director for External Affairs).

We thank Ms. Shee Padua Sychay for her constant support to our organization and for accommodating us at The Litton Hotel. We are also grateful for her warm and brilliant hotel staff for attending to us last night. Dyos mabalos po.

Para sa urog kararom pang pagsaysay!

20/12/2024

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀: 𝗙é𝗹𝗶𝘅 𝗱𝗲 𝗛𝘂𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮, 𝗢𝗙𝗠

210 years ago, Fray Félix Yepes de la Sagra y Sánchez Turrero ó Huerta, OFM, was born in Huerta de Valdecarábanos, Diocese of Toledo, Spain on November 20, 1814 and was baptized with the name of Félix Jose, professed at the convent of Fuensalida, in the Discalced or Alcantarine Franciscan Province of San José in November 21, 1852.

He authored that famous Estado of the Franciscan province in the Philippines, a work which is today regarded as a vital source of reference by assiduous students of Philippine history. As a Spanish Franciscan missionary, he dedicated himself to various spheres of apostolic commitment that the Order of Friars Minor (O.F.M.) is generally engaged in. He had also been the administrator of the Hermandad de la Casa de Misericordia, a pious foundation for the poor and the needy.

Fray Félix de Huerta was only 24 when he came here in 1838. His first assignment was as confessor and preacher in 1840; lecturer of theology in 1842: then Archdiocesan Synodal Examiner of the Archdiocese of Manila in 1852, at the same time Vicar of Monasterio de Sta. Clara in Intramuros. A year later, he was appointed Guardian or Local Superior of the Convento de San Francisco de Intramuros. Two years later he was back at Sta. Clara monastery and in 1859, he became Minister in-charge of San Lazaro Hospital where he cared for the socially ostracized lepers and those afflicted with other communicable diseases. He remained in the Philippines till his death in 1894, at the age of 79 and after having spent his best fifty-six (56) years among his Filipino flock.

Due to his remarkable aptitude for research and ecclesiastical studies, Fray Félix had been called "the walking archives."

Reference:
Monte de Piedad and Savings Bank Centennial: 1882-1982 Years of Service to the Nation.

Platero, Eusebio Gomez. Catalogo Biográfico De Los Religiosos Franciscanos De La Provincia De San Gregorio Magno De Filipinas Desde 1577 En Que Llegard Los Primeros à Manila Hasta Los De Nuestros Dias. Manila: Imprenta del Real Colegio de Santo Tomás, 1880.

12/12/2024

𝗝𝗔𝗣𝗔𝗡𝗘𝗦𝗘 𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗜𝗡 𝗟𝗘𝗚𝗔𝗭𝗣𝗜

On this day, 83 years ago, the Japanese Imperial Army landed in Legazpi, Albay. At around 5:30 AM, a civilian sentry at Rawis Beach reported the landing of Japanese troops led by Maj. Gen. Naoki Kimura. These forces were part of the Kimura Detachment, which had departed from Palau Island on December 8, 1941. Their mission was to capture Legazpi and secure its airfield.

The landing met no resistance from American forces, following Gen. Douglas MacArthur's strategic decision to preserve his troops for the anticipated main Japanese invasion force. The Kimura Detachment consisted of approximately 3,200 men from the 16th Division and the Kure 1st Special Naval Landing Force. They arrived aboard 12 transport ships, escorted by a cruiser and six destroyers.

09/12/2024

Our journal's first and second issues are still available at Roel's Bookshop. Visit their store at 176 Maginhawa Street, Diliman, Quezon City to grab your copies!

Saysay: The Journal of Bikol History Issue 2 (2022)
is now available ‼️

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Additional copies of Issue 1 (2021) are also available! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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