A profile of ‘Sta. Barbara’ folks?
Eduardo Pontaoe
20 Nov 2007
When will Tolong – the pre-Hispanic name of Santa Barbara – regain its meaning, its courage, its morality?
In 1967, when the Papacy discharged Santa Barbara from sainthood of being unsaintly, it sent a moral upheaval thru all those towns and entities that carried her name.
Why now? Centuries after canonization, the Church in a classic reversal in ideology, deemed it a necessity, to bring down Santa Barbara from her pedestal oblivious to the fact, that such move will create confusion in the church thereby instigating a revolt.
But, low and behold – nothing happened! The meek shall inherit nothing. The losers in this shell game are the people of Santa Barbara who as dumbfounding it may seems, still clings to what the Church dictates.
Glorifying the Holy Family as their patron saint while celebrating its town’s feast in the feast of Santa Barbara, and the unholy of the unholiest, the retention of the town’s name itself.
It does not get any worse than that. The town loses its meaning.
Does the people of Santa Barbara have the courage to bring change? Unlikely! Until they can do what the Indians did to Bombay to Mumbai . . . Delhi from New Delhi . . . Burma to Myanmar. . . until the Barbarians can get out from that quagmire of dependency. . . it is wishful thinking.
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