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THE HARDWOOD PATRIARCH: SAN AGUSTIN DE TANZA [Part 3 of 5] By JOSE ALAIN AUSTRIA © 2007, 2014 NOTE: This is the third of a five-part series on the history of the centuries-old wooden image and the devotional culture that developed around it. The original version of this study was published in the UST Graduate School Journal AD VERITATEM (2007) Vol. 7, No. 1: 307-343. Part three delves deeper into the “Hardwood Patriarch” phenomenon, the caracol as a rain ritual, and the three-cycle novena. Popular devotion to San Agustin in Tanza started sometime in the 18th century under the shadow of a dominant local institution: the Hacienda de Santa Cruz de Malabon. With the roster of devotees entirely made up of local tenants, rice farmers and cattle-raisers, it is not surprising that the devotion developed a distinct folk character that persists to this very day. ...Click the link below to read the full text. cc: Enzo Capio, Dido Villasor Palmer Odviar
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