![]() ![]() ![]() José Burgos, is filled with errors and deficiencies in style, thus its impossibility to be the work of a highly educated priest with Spanish parentage (and I should add that Fr. A mastery of Spanish will tell us that La Loba Negra, a novel that has been attributed to Fr. Old texts will tell us that the real name of that intrepid chief of Mactán who defeated Fernando Magallanes (more popularly known as Ferdinand Magellan) and his crew was Pulaco, not Lapu-Lapu. ![]() Old documents and books (in Spanish and even in French) will tell us that Manila was founded not just as a city but as a capital city (that of the Capitanía General de Filipinas), effectively making our country a state despite its status as an overseas province (provincia ultramarina), but such fact is always ignored. Take for example the founding of the city of Manila on 24 June 1571. I always tell friends that reading translated Filipino history could be dangerous at times because it robs the essence of what the texts truly mean. ![]()
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