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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Yu wins the NCCA Writers’ Prize 2014 for Essay in Cebuano Language
The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) awarded the NCCA Writers’ Prize 2014 for Essay in Cebuano Language to Dr. Hope Sabanpan-Yu, USC Director of the Cebuano Studies Center and professor of the Department of Languages and Literature, for her entry Naglangoy sa Langit. The NCCA Writers’ Prize is a biennial award given […]