‘Laing,’ ‘kinunot na pagi’ and ‘ginutaang balaw’–Bicol specialties, by a Bicolano priest
“Pedro Calungsod: Patron for the Filipino Youth” is Fr. Salvador “Buddy” Agualada Jr.’s third book. His first two books are “Stirrings of a Heart in Prayer,” which won him the Cardinal Sin Catholic Book Emerging Author Award in the 2008 Catholic Mass Media Awards, and “Homecoming,” the first book he wrote after returning from Rome, where he took up licentiate studies in Dogmatic Theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University.