AUGUST 22

| August 22, 2024

Fiesta of Minglanilla, Cebu

1903

Birth in Escalante, Negros Occidental, of Cebuano writer and newspaperman Napoleon Dejoras (1903-1972).

1905

Secretary of War William H. Taft, with a party of high American officials, visits Cebu in the course of an inspection tour.

1963

A degree of the Cebu Archbishop divides the Santo Rosario parish into two parishes: Santo Rosario and “Our Lady of Sacred Heart Parish” (Capitol), with Fr. Eugene Van Vught as the latter’s first parish priest.

Category: Today in the History of Cebu