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The Great Island
Studies in the Exploration and Evangelization of Mindanao
- Publisher
- Ateneo de Manila University Press
- Year
- 2004
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 305
- ISBN
- 9789715504690
- Availability
- In print
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About the book
Essays on the exploration of Mindanao and the Christian missions there from the sixteenth century on, by a Jesuit historian who spent his later life in Cagayan de Oro.
Miguel A. Bernad's book gathers 9 studies of the exploration and evangelisation of Mindanao. Its full subtitle in library records is "Studies in the Exploration and Evangelization of Mindanao".
The studies run in rough time order. They re-examine the evidence on whether the first mass was held at Butuan or Limasawa, then cover the first church in Mindanao in 1596 to 1597, Father Ducós and the Muslim wars of 1752 to 1759, and the Tamontaca mission in southern Mindanao from 1861 to 1899. Others follow the evangelisation of the Davao region, José Rizal's exile in Dapitan, the exploration of the Rio Grande de Mindanao from 1888 to 1890, and climbs of Mount Apo from 1852 to 1958.
Ateneo de Manila University Press published it in 2004, with references and an index.
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