Vocations
Synopsis
Horacio de la Costa was a historian, a writer, and a priest. He became the first Filipino Superior of the Jesuit Province in the Philippines at a time when the Filipinization of religious orders was intensely contested.
He lived through the Japanese occupation, helping those who had either evaded or escaped the Japanese forces. For these actions, he was arrested and imprisoned in Fort Santiago, but was awarded the Medal of Freedom in 1946 by the US government.
In 1982, the National Historical Institute unveiled a historical marker in his hometown of Mauban.
Genre
Biographies
Length
16
Pages
Size
10x8
Inches
Weight
250
Grams
Type
Soft Cover
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This series aims to present role models for young people to emulate. Each story in the series contains a central theme that exemplifies a moral value or characteristic or an exemplary incident in the life of each principal character.
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