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Written by Artemio R. Leon
Illustrated by Christian Oliver A. Cruz
Horacio Luis de la Costa, was born on May 9, 1916, in Mauban, Quezon. He was a historian, a writer and a priest. Specifically, he was a Jesuit priest, and more importantly, he was a Filipino Jesuit priest. This may be common now, but in the early 1900s, there weren’t so many Filipino Jesuit priests. Fr. Horacio de la Costa was the first Filipino Provincial Superior of the Society of Jesus, an important title he earned on December 8, 1964 when he was 48 years old.
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 for two months, but was awarded the Medal of Freedom in 1946 by the US government.
Copyright © 2015
ISBN: 978-971-569-828-3
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