The Sanson clan is one of Cebu City’s historical families, whose roots in this oldest of Philippine towns could be inferred from documents dating to the late 18th century. Copious data, primarily from the National Archives, attests to their prominence.
February 19 was not a good day to go paddling out to sea as Typhoon “Crising” threatened to hit Mindanao, bringing with it incessant rains as far north as Cebu. That morning, a book launch was afoot and the irony of a stormy day could not have been all lost, in that the book, “Akong Bugsay,” is about navigating that deep blue sea called “life”—be it pacific or tempest-tossed.
THE JESUITS have an early but short-lived association with the founding of the city of Cebu, an association that ended about 1600. But Jesuit presence in the province continued, notably in the town of Mandaue where a Jesuit hacienda operated for a good part of the 18th century.
A dinner at the museum capped the celebration of Cebu City’s declaration as an Asean City of Culture in creative...
