1565 “San Pedro,” Legazpi’s flagship, leaves on the first voyage from Cebu to Mexico. It sails under the command of Felipe de Salcedo. This voyage discovered the return route to Mexico across the Pacific. On this same day, five Augustinians arrive in Cebu to spread Christianity in the region. 1961 The City Council passes Ordinance […]
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Marcel Navarra
Marcel M. Navarra (1914-1984) is known as “The Father of Modern Cebuano Literature.” He was born in Tuyom, Carcar. He spent most of his life writing almost 80 short stories which were published in Cebuano magazines; namely, Bisaya, Alimyon and Bulak. His first story, Tungod sa Kayagang, was published in Nasud in 1931. His best-known […]
Nicolas Rafols
Nicolas Mercado Rafols Jr was born in Toledo, Cebu in 1894 and died on May 2, 1947. He was a poet and fictionist. His parents are Ignacia Mercado and Nicolas Rafols Sr, a Spanish mestizo who was one of those responsible for opening up the Toledo area to large-scale commercial agriculture. He studied in […]
Pres. Sergio Osmeña Sr.
Sergio Osmeña Sr. was born in Cebu on September 9, 1898. He studied at Seminario Colegio de San Carlos in 1889; took up law at the University of Sto. Tomas. He was a publisher of El Nuevo Dia and passed the bar in 1903. He became the Governor of Cebu (1906), Assemblyman (1907), Senate President […]
Sulpicio Selerio Osorio
Born in Dalaguete, Cebu on the 17th of January 1898 and died on the 26th of March 1970. Fictionist. He is the son of Estanislao Osorio, a wealthy farmer-merchant, and Hilaria Selerio; he was the cousin of writer Amando Osorio. He studied in the local elementary school and finished his high school in Cebu. In […]
Cebuano Folktales 2
Alburo, Erlinda K. Cebuano Folktales 2 Cebu City: University of San Carlos Publications, 1977. 43p. (Booklet with English translation of some Cebuano folktales) P 95.00 in the Philippines*
Cebuano Folksongs 1
Alburo, Erlinda K. Cebuano Folksongs 1. Cebu City: University of San Carlos Publications, 1978. 39p. (Booklet with musical notation and texts in Cebuano and English of some popular Cebuano folksongs) P 95.00 in the Philippines* With picture
Cebuano Poetry Sugboanong Balak
Alburo, Erlinda K., et al (trans-eds.) Cebuano Poetry/Sugbuanong Balak until 1940. Cebu City: Cebuano Studies Center, 1988. (with critical preface, bilingual texts and annotations) 232 p. P 400.00 in the Philippines* (Out of print)