I observed that the article I wrote about Majayjay’s “Tulay Pigue” is receiving hits lately. Some years has passed since the last time I saw Majayjay. I managed to obtain some more details about the bridge that has become a symbol of Friar’s abuse of power to many. I consulted the historian Pio Andrade Jr. […]
Tag: felix huerta
When Don Francisco Carriedo y Peredo, who made his fortune in the galleon trade died in 1743, he willed 10,000 pesos to be invested in the galleon trade till it is enough to build a water system for Manila. The will specified that the money was to be used solely for the building f Manila’s […]
PHILIPPINE history focus so much on political history that many historical, but nonpolitical, persons of outstanding accomplishments are hardly mentioned in standard history textbooks. Take the case of Franciscan friar Fr. Felix Huerta, the administrator from 1850 to 1878 of San Lazaro Hospital which treated lepers for free. To most Manilans today, Felix Huerta is […]