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The street that connects C.M. Recto Avenue to Malacanang Palace, crosses the Estero de San Miguel into the San Miguel district. Site of many popular or mass protests due to its proximity to the palace, which is the seat of national executive power. Witness to violent dispersals which have resulted in deaths such as during … Read more

Please visit our Serafin Quiason Resource Center (SQRC) aka NHCP Library on the Ground Floor, NHCP Building, TM Kalaw St. Ermita, Manila. We are open Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM, although we are closed on weekends and holidays. Some materials in the SQRC are available on the National Memory Project (memory.nhcp.gov.ph) but … Read more

The Griffin is an English ship built in 1747 in the Blackwall dockyard along the Thames River in London. It was one of the ships of the English East India Company (also called Honourable East India Company, or HEIC) that actively pursued trade with the East Indies and its vicinities, which included China. Its registered … Read more

Sanikulas FestivalSeptember 10Mexico, Pampanga Every September 10 during the feast of St. Nicholas of Tolentino, the town of Mexico, Pampanga holds the Sanikulas Festival in honor of the saint and his image-bearing miraculous namesake cookies. The Kapampángan towns of Macabebe (Pampanga) and Capas (Tarlac) also have St. Nicholas of Tolentino as their patron saint and … Read more

The spiritual administration of Cagsaua from 1587 to 1595 was under the parish of Camalig. An early church was burned, on 25 July 1636, by the Dutch who ransacked the towns bordering Legaspi Bay. This church built after 1724 by Fray Francisco Lanco, O.F.M., was buried by rocks and lava during the eruption of Mayon … Read more