Roque ferriols biography of mahatma

The death last August 15, of Father Roque J. Ferriols of the Society of Jesus was a source of grief for many of us. Not just the Jesuits, the faculty and staff of Ateneo de Manila University, but also his thousands of former students and alumni who remember him as a memorable presence on campus.

A Brief BiogrAphy Roque Jamias Ferriols, SJ, was born in the Philippine General Hospital on August 16, , and grew up in North Sampaloc.

He passed away at the age of Father Ferriols pioneered the teaching of philosophy in Filipino not just at Ateneo but also in the country. At a time when Filipino was seen as an inferior language that could not capture the shapes of thought of so arcane a subject as Philosophy, Father Ferriols sailed full steam ahead and taught it.

Father Horacio de la Costa, S. People had warned me about his volcanic temper, but I wanted to publish his manuscripts and made an appointment to meet. It seemed he had already read the poems in my first book, Skin Voices Faces, and he welcomed me warmly.

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He said he would be happy to entrust all his manuscripts to me, with the caveat that his Filipino is a mixture of Zambales and Sampaloc, Manila, Tagalog and should not be touched. I also bought him three short-sleeved polo shirts every year during his birthday, as presents from my office for our best-selling and famous author.

Leovino Maria Garcia, then Ateneo dean, was the one who told me that Father Ferriols would be happy to receive short-sleeved polo shirts as birthday gifts. People who did not know Fr. Ferriols had not yet taken seriously T. I grow old. I shall wear my trousers rolled.