Sr. Maria Concepcion Kalaw: First Filipina Maryknoll Sister
Sr. Maria Concepcion Kalaw: First Filipina Maryknoll Sister As we celebrate the 500 years of the arrival of Christianity in the Philippines this year, it is fitting to remember the beginnings of the missionary spirit that has fueled the spread of Christianity among Filipinos by highlighting and acknowledging the first Filipino members of missionary congregations who came here mostly from Europe and America as missionary evangelizers serving the Filipino faithful especially in far flung areas and then later on inspiring and recruiting members from the locale to continue their missionary work in different mission stations in the country and elsewhere in the world. Thus we see transformation in terms of the Philippines being a receiving Church to that of a giving Church. It is now harvest time for the Church of the Philippines. First Maryknoll Sister Sr. Maria Concepcion Kalaw nee Dolores Katigbak Kalaw, the first Filipino Maryknoll sister was born in Lipa City on March 9...