Why do Filipinos carol then and now? 12/11/2010

Why do Filipinos carol then and now?

12/11/2010

DAVAO CITY — Why do Filipinos carol, too? Mainly just to share the joys of the season via singing carols or songs of praise to the coming of the Lord and conditioning the rebirth of a new year a week after Christmas.

But when did Christmas caroling come to us?

As far back in early l5th century following the Christianization of the Philippine islands through the Spanish colonization heydays, caroling among early Filipinos had emerged gradually.

It was so because the birth of the Baby Jesus in a manger in faraway Bethlehem, Jerusalem was and is still among the important dates the Roman Catholic Church teaches of its flock around the world.

Spanish colonizing wooden fleets always tagged along with them friars of the Augustinian Order and later also reinforced by Jesuits and other religious orders in the western hemisphere....MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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