Getting to know Grace Poe’s man
Neil Llamanzares and Mary Grace Poe grew up in the same Greenhills neighborhood. She was 16 and a student at Assumption, while he attended the Jesuit-run Xavier School.
Neil Llamanzares and Mary Grace Poe grew up in the same Greenhills neighborhood. She was 16 and a student at Assumption, while he attended the Jesuit-run Xavier School.
Today, the first day of the year, we celebrate two feasts—that of Mary the Mother of God, and the Holy Name of Jesus.
In 1973, Sophie, Vivian, Nina, Binky, Marvy and Joji enrolled in the all-male Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City—blazing the trail as the first six coeds of the Jesuit-run school.
In the 1980S movie “Amadeus,” there is a study of contrasts in the person of Salieri. In one scene, he is pictured as the hardworking, disciplined and methodical court composer. Upon completion of a work, he raises his eyes to the crucifix and gratefully says, “Thank you, Lord!”
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.
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