Quintin paredes biography of mahatma
I have lived in a simple and frugal life So that all I want is to be wrapped With a humble hand-woven cloth And be layed to rest Without casing, without coffin....
First published in Tulay Fortnightly, Chinese-Filipino Digest 25, no.
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Quintin Paredes is more than a street name in Binondo. This name, which replaced that of Rosario, belonged to a lawyer, statesman and senator who had a prominent hand shaping Philippine history.
Quintin Paredes was born on Sept.
8, 1884 in Bangued, Abra to Juan Felix Paredes and Regina Babila. His father ran a school, Colegio de la Purisima Concepcion, where he studied as a young boy. His mother was daughter of an Itneg tribal leader.
Paredes was in his teens when the Philippine-American War (1899-1902) broke out.
The first Americans to reach Bangued were 19 prisoners of the revolutionary unit under a Col. Leviste of Abra.
Quintin Paredes.They were lodged among the town’s elite. A major and a chaplain stayed with the family.
The elder Paredes treated them as befitted their rank and status, not as prisoners. Thankful for his hospitality, the men offered to teach his children English, which the