Some things never change
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| Larry Faraon, OP |
Today, the country commemorates the naval victories of the Spanish and Filipinos against the marauding Dutch armies that threatened our country with hegemony and eventually dislodging the Catholic religion with the latter’s predominant Protestant religious conquest in 1646. Caught by surprise and in near panic, the Spanish mobilized in haste two trading galleon ships and armed them with artillery and whatever fire power and untrained naval personnel available. Even the Dutch historians would attest later to the unique victory of the ill equipped merchant ships against the impregnable Dutch naval battle vessels in all five engagements at the bay stretch from Cavite to Manila and Bataan.
But the Spanish and Filipino Catholics were quick to attribute the naval victories to the powerful intercession of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, since a divine intervention and prayer would be the only recourse in view of the impossible prospects of winning the battle. The people were on the shores of Manila Bay praying, down on knees and in a procession in bare feet begging the Lord through Mary to save the country and the Catholic faith..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101011com5.html
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