…Micronesia Milestone Santa Marian Kamalen Statue Found 1690 Santa Marian Kamalen statue is found in Malesso’ after the galleon Nuestra Señora del Pilar shipwrecked off Cocos Island. Image information: Santa…
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…six decades. He was born to Candido Sanchez and Maria Taitano San Agustin of Hagåtña. San Agustin married Carmen Shimizu San Agustin. They had four children, Ann, Mary, Joe, and…
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…Urdaneta Bartola Garrido Ciriaco de Espiritu Santo Domingo Medina de Santo Tomás Father Aniceto Ibáñez del Carmen Father Diego Luis de San Vitores Father Luís de Medina Fray Antonio de…
…Catholic mission headed by Father Diego Luis de San Vitores in 1668. San Vitores is credited with establishing the Catholic Church in the Mariana Islands. Shortly after arriving on the…
…San Vitores arrived in Guam in the San Diego. He brought four other priests, four missionary brothers and 32 soldiers to establish a Catholic mission in the Marianas. When San…
…colonial era. First is the Barrio systems that were established by the civil and church officials. There were five principal ‘barrios’ in Hagåtña: San Ignacio, San Ramon, San Nicolas, Santa…
…area owned by the Perez, Dungca, Sanchez, Rivera, San Nicolas, Sablan, Palting and Rojas families. However, in the late 1940s, the village transformed radically as these families as well as…
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…the order of the Archdiocese of Guam. Sanctuary, Inc. Sanctuary is a non-profit organization established more than thirty years ago to help the island’s troubled youth. Since its founding, Sanctuary…
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…reinterpreted them as punches, perforators and drills. Islanders on Rota also made fishing hooks of nails they acquired from the Santa Margarita, according to Fray Juan Pobre de Zamora, a…
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…topics of land and related issues, the dispute was highlighted by the case of Angel LG Santos. In early 1993 Santos occupied land in Mogfog, Dededo that belonged to his…
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