Friday, February 22

Thursday, February 21

Lolo Ikoy and Mommy Carmen


LUDOVICO ARROYO BAÑAS
1901 - 16 February - 2013

CARMEN JALANDONI JOVER
1910 - 5 March - 2013

Thursday, October 18


HAPPY 12th BIRTHDAY, MARGARET MARY THERESE BRILLANTES ECLAR!
(19 October 2012)



Sunday, October 14

7th Birthday Celebration of Erika Maria Theresa
14 October 2012









Friday, September 14

(Antigua imagen de marfil  de la Nuestra Señora de los Dolores de Capitan Don Martín Balderas, Gobernadorcillo de Banate)
Fiesta de Nuestra Señora de los Dolores
15 de Septembre 2012 
Oremos:
Incline, O Señora, O llena de dolores
Su rostro amable en mis dolores.

Stabat mater dolorosa
juxta Crucem lacrimosa,
dum pendebat Filius.
Cuius animam gementem,
contristatam et dolentem
pertransivit gladius.
O quam tristis et afflicta
fuit illa benedicta,
mater Unigeniti!
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La Madre piadosa estaba
junto a la cruz y lloraba
mientras el Hijo pendía.
Cuya alma, triste y llorosa,
traspasada y dolorosa,
fiero cuchillo tenía.
¡Oh, cuán triste y cuán aflicta
se vio la Madre bendita,
de tantos tormentos llena!
Cuando triste contemplaba
y dolorosa miraba
del Hijo amado la pena.
Y ¿cuál hombre no llorara,
si a la Madre contemplara
de Cristo, en tanto dolor?
Y ¿quién no se entristeciera,
Madre piadosa, si os viera
sujeta a tanto rigor?
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At the Cross her station keeping,
stood the mournful Mother weeping,
close to her Son to the last.
Through her heart, His sorrow sharing,
all His bitter anguish bearing,
now at length the sword has passed.
O how sad and sore distressed
was that Mother, highly blest,
of the sole-begotten One.
Christ above in torment hangs,
she beneath beholds the pangs
of her dying glorious Son.
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Sunday, August 12

(Our Maternal Grandfather)
16 February 1901 - 29 July 1979

Ludovico Arroyo Bañas was a pioneer in telecommunications in the Philippines during the American rule in the Philippines. He was one in the first and only group of 10 scholars of the Insular government of the United States of America in the Archipelago to study telecommunications at the US Naval Base in Cavite. He works at the Bureau of Posts in Manila, and was a WW II Veteran, who made a significant contribution to the liberation of the Philippines, through his expertise in the field of communication. He built a career in this field from 1 January 1919, and became the Regional Telecommunications Superintendent for Region IV (Panay, Negros, Romblon, Palawan) in the late fifties until 16 February 1966.


CELESTINO BARBOZA BAÑAS and FRANCISCA ARROYO, parents of Ludovico.

Ludovico and his father Celestino c. 1950s
Ludovico with wife Carmen Jalandoni Jover.

FRANCISCO PELAGIO BRILLANTES, SR.
(Our Paternal Grandfather)
 4 June 1892 - 24 May 1981

Francisco was born to a Banatenhon Family belonging to the Principalia of the town, to the couple Aquilino Juanico Brillantes and Francisca Pelagio. His Father was a grandson of Capitan Don Tomas Juanico (Gobernadorcillo of Banate from 1855-1856) and Dona Lucia Balderas (sister of Capitan Don Martin Balderas, who was also among the Gobernadorcillos of Banate during that Period). 

The first child of Don Tomas Juanico and Dona Lucia Balderas was Andrea Balderas Juanico. She married a gentleman from Barotac Nuevo, Iloilo named Vicente Blancaflor Brillantes. The couple was blessed with several children, among whom was Aquilino (our grandfather's father). 

Registry of marriage of Francisco Pelagio Brillantes and Josefina Balderas Madrid at the Parish of St. John the Baptist in Banate, Iloilo, dated 7 January 1923.