{"id":139,"date":"2019-05-09T08:59:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T08:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uahost.uantwerpen.be\/philperiodicals\/?p=139"},"modified":"2021-11-09T10:06:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T10:06:16","slug":"philippine-press-and-the-seminary-of-the-agustinians-in-valladolid-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hosting.uantwerpen.be\/philperiodicals\/2019\/05\/09\/philippine-press-and-the-seminary-of-the-agustinians-in-valladolid-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippine Press and the Seminary of the Agustinians in Valladolid (Spain)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Seminary of the Agustinians in Valladolid, located in Paseo de Filipinos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Over the last few months, we have been twice in Valladolid scanning Philippine newspapers from the 1890s. After this statement, a good question to ask would probably be… Why are there Philippine newspapers in Valladolid? Agustinian friars have a long tradition in the Philippines. Four Agustinians arrived in the archipelago in 1565 with Andr\u00e9s de Urdaneta, also an Agustinian friar and a sailor who happened to discover the route back to Mexico from the Philippines.  Actually, the Seminary in Valladolid<\/a> (Spain) belongs to the “province” or Agustinian administrative division called “Sant\u00edsimo nombre de Jes\u00fas de Filipinas” and is located in Paseo de Filipinos.<\/p>\n

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San Agustin Church. Intramuros, Manila.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After the Battle of Manila in World War II, one of the few buildings that managed to remain standing in Intramuros was the convent of San Agustin. From there, they have been bringing to Spain library holdings and periodicals that were preserved in their Philippine premises. Later, priests such as F. Isacio Rodr\u00edguez<\/a> O.S.A., and F. Blas Sierra de la Calle<\/a>, have been travelling to the Philippines and returning to their Valladolid home with the latest books from and about the Philippines. This is how they have managed to have one of the biggest Filipiniana collections in Europe, right next to an Oriental Museum<\/a> which tells the history of the order in Asia.<\/p>\n