Quotes from Philippine history

Compiled by Gloria Esguerra Melencio

“Two of their customs Chirino found wholly admirable: One was their hospitality toward strangers. Any traveler overtaken by night or weariness was certain of a meal and a lodging for the night in any house. The other was that the price of rice never varied, whether harvest was good or bad.” (page 148, Chapter 7, Mission Stations, The Jesuits in the Philippines 1581-1768 by Horacio dela Costa, S.J., Harvard University Press, 1961)