1595 The Spanish King, Philip II, issues a royal decree granting to Cebu the title of a city. 1865 Birth in Barili, Cebu, of Cebuano priest-writer Ismael M. Paras (1865-1935). 1899 Santiago Ferraris, presidente of San Nicolas, presents to Col. R.H. Hamer a letter of the town council protesting the American occupation of San Nicolas. […]
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The Launch of the Faigao Books
The latest addition to University of San Carlos Press publications, Canto Voice, a collection of short mock satiric verses by the late Cornelio F. Faigao, launches at the Waterfront Cebu City hotel in cooperation with the Freeman Lifestyle on June 8, 2013, 3-6pm, together with Linda Faigao-Hall’s The Female Heart and Other […]