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Baclayon Church |
The Parish Church of the Immaculate Conception in Baclayon,
Bohol. Built in 1596, it is reportedly the second oldest stone
church in the Philippines.
Trade between Chinese began in as early as 5th Century, bringing
wares and porcelain goods for their return to their mainland.
Boholanos served as distributors, taking the Chinese goods as
far as the Mollucas to barter with honey, spices and other
items. This practice made Boholanos reasonably stable than other
islands.
Panglao Island is said to be connected with the mainland through
stilts in the shallow harbor of the strait. According to legend,
Portuguese sailors demolished the town and abducted one of the
queens, pushing Sultan Sikatuna to move his people to Bohol, an
area just outside Tagbilaran City. Other sultans moved its
people to Mindanao.
When Legazpi arrived in the island, he signed a peace treaty
with Sultan Sikatuna, contrary to how he took other places.
Sikatuna’s friendly acceptance resulted to a peaceful agreement.
Legazpi was impressed of the native’s lenient character and but
his attention focused more on Bohol’s established economy.
The treaty between the two leaders was recognized for 45 years.
Sikatuna’s baptismal just before his death caused a serious
conflict with other Muslims. Despite their conversion to
Catholicism, however, Boholanos never really submit to friar’s
abuses. That’s enough reason for Dagohoy’s successful revolt in
1744. For 85 years Bohol stayed an independent region under the
Spaniards but diminished its importance as a trading center.
In contrary to the island’s open acceptance with the Spanish,
Bohol was not easily suppressed by the occupation of the
Americans. They succeeded on keeping their independence even
with the strong forces of the Japanese. They printed their own
money and have supplied their own people with abundant produce
of livelihood without the help of other islands.
Since 1945 Bohol remained a peaceful island with inhabitants
used to independent living and equality between each other. Even
when the Spanish left the Philippines, people who acquired
possessions on lands never took power over low class farmers.
Having equal relationship among each other kept their island one
of the safest places in the Philippines.
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