CHAPTER 1 LOVE STORY OF IRENEO URSOS AND JUANA DUMAPLIN)

CHAPTER 1 LOVE STORY OF IRENEO URSOS AND JUANA DUMAPLIN)

CHAPTER 1 LOVE STORY OF IRENEO URSOS AND JUANA DUMAPLIN)

UNANG YUGTO SA SUGILANON : ANG GUGMA LUYO SA BARKONG KARAAN UG ANG BAGYO( IN ENGLISH THE FIRST CHAPTER OF LOVE STORY OF IRENEO URSOS AND JUANA DUMAPLIN) 

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UNANG YUGTO SA SUGILANON : ANG GUGMA LUYO SA BARKONG KARAAN UG ANG BAGYO( IN ENGLISH  -FIRST CHAPTER OF LOVE STORY OF IRENEO URSOS AND JUANA DUMAPLIN)
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The original Ursos family the parents of Itay Iyon known as Ireneo Ursos came from Antique near Capiz and the Boracay beach...

ASs it was told The ancient Ursos werethe Khmer merchants from Mekong River pushed by the army of the Sung Dynasty of China to find the source of Gold somehere in Maa, the port of Mindoro 

The Villareal family cam from Acapulco Mexico who came to the Islas Filipinas through the Galleon Trade, the enterprize of theHamburg royal families, the parents of King Philip II of Spain

The Villareal family came to settle in Cebu because the Spanish Audencia told them to find the supply of gold.. the traditional source of gol was in Toledo Cebu and somehere in CaLAGAN OF Butuan kingdom The Ursos and Villareal families were intermarried in this way

The Ursos family was accepted by the Audencia of Islas Filipinas and were baptized as catholicsunder the Jesuits and Parish Order
As ashow of commitment the Ursos parents of |Ireneo  offered him to serve the catholic church... so Ireneo worked all his life in the churchand assist the priest in all his activities

But the world politics went upside down,...  The new nation of thew United States of America manifest its destiny as the new police of the world  this way.. the United States and Spain have conflict in its territories.

The Spain claimed the Islas Filipinas as an Spanish territory

It coincided with the Philippine revolution after the death of Jose Rizal


The americans came with Commodore Dewey and assisted the filipino revolutionaries. Withe US navy the Presbeterian missionaries came
The presbeterian missionaries under Alexander Graham recruited Irenewo Ursosfort the work of bible preaching

         Ireneo Ursos became interested to read the bible

        The Spanish Catrholic Frayle did not allow the filipinos to read the bible during those times anybody caught reading the bible shall be declared a heretic and considered  a serious crime

       The priest of Antique caught Ireneo reading the bible.. so he was reported to the Spanish Guardia Civil

        The Villareal family of Cebu feared for thew life of Ireneo so he was advised to come to Butuan where some of the Villareal family were living there for gold traDING WITHE THE mAGAHAT Natives

So Ireneo came to Butuan It is where he first his true love Juana RocaDumaplin , a mestiza manobo- Portuguese woman.. Juana was one of the Bae of thwe manobo tribe it means she was a beautiful princess of the manobo trebe
  
The Dumaplin family also worked withe Cathlic Church encomienda.  so Juana also work at the church

Ireneo and Juana have their love story grew to be true in the church of Butuan

  But one day    Juana was ordered by the church to come to Ubay and to serrves the Catholic church of Ubay

Ireneo was desperate The Presbeterian Mission offered to him the bible preaching in the island of Bohol.....  Ireneo accepted the offer

One day....    he packed up for a voyage with the old wooden ship called Balanghai Sail
           In the middle of the sea,  a storm rocked the boat ....  The captain of the boat   told Ireneo that their route will be rerouted .. instead  of going to Cebu.. they have to divert it to Ubay to hide the  boat from the storm Besides the captain came from Ubay so he knows how to sail it  well......  The captain hide the boat in Pitogo Island near Ubay.  

 After the storm Ireneo who  stayed in Pitogo Island during the storm went to Ubay  and found Juana at the church of |Ubay

Their love continued at UbayJuana had relativwees in U|bay the Roca famnilies.  Ireneo visited the Roca families and charmed them with his services  The Roca families favored Ireneo to be the husband of |Juana

......................................to be continued