1568 Rajah Tupas of Cebu is baptized a Catholic by Father Diego Herrera and receives the name Felipe in honor of King Philip II. 1825 Dominican Francisco Genoves is appointed as 14th Bishop of Cebu. 1899 The Cebu revolutionary council under Arcadio Maxilom is convened for a meeting in Pardo, which had been set up […]
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Center receives recognition during the Don Mariano Awards 2013
Last September 8, 2013 was the 136th birth anniversary of Mariano Avila Mercado, mayor of Carcar in the 1920s. During his administration, Mercado built the Carcar Dispensary, formerly health center before and after the war and is now a museum, the swimming pool just behind the dispensary which served as American soldiers’ recreation area, the […]