Columbans in the Philippines: the Beginnings

By Fr Kevin McHugh



30 May 1929 is an historic date for Columbans in the Philippines. On that day Fr Michael Cuddigan, who had sailed from Sydney, disembarked in Manila Harbour and made his way to Our Lady of Remedies Church, Malate. He was not the first Columban to visit Manila; several others had made it a port of call in the 1920s en route to and from China, but he was the first in a long line of Columbans who, over the next 80 years, would make the Philippines their home...

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