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Mother Rosario (2)
Her education
Mother Rosario first attended classes at the Colegio de Santa Ana, a private school in Molo of the Avanceña Sisters (Jovita and Ramona – sisters of later Chief Justice Ramon Avanceña). In preparation for her first Holy Communion, she was transferred to Colegio de las Niñas de San Jose (now Colegio de San Jose), in nearby Jaro administered by the Daughters of Charity.
She stayed at this college until she finished her secondary education. She was then sent to the Beaterio de Santa Catalina, the oldest boarding school in the country in Intramuros, Manila. There, she learned music and was good in playing the piano and the organ, the popular course for the elite of her time.
(NOTE: the contents of Book 3 of our books Interesting Facts about West Visayas (Commerce and Industry – Malay time to Spanish time) are: development of industries from Malay time to Spanish time – rice, sugar, fishing, mining, shipbuilding, textile weaving, bamboocraft, pottery, comb-making, tuba-gathering, blacksmithing, role of Sir Nicholas Loney in sugar industry, ancient Malay commerce and ports, Spanish currencies, banks and department stores.
There is a special feature on Jaro – the story Our Lady of the Candelaria image, La Ciudad de Jaro, Jaro mansions, Jaro belfry and its destruction by earthquake and agrarian systems from Malay time up to the present.)