Who me? Sure, like all humankind, my deepest roots can be traced to Adam and Eve if you believe in divine creation like I do. I don't care if you don't. You have a right to your own opinion but don't have a right to your facts.
PERSONAL FACTS
I, self, have a right to both my opinion and facts because I say so. Self is totally impure blood, of pre-mixed race.
Maternal: Filipino, Malayan, Chinese, Russian
There is a family connection during the time of Ivan IV, The Terrible (1530-1584), the first Russian czar. Ivan was cruel and even killed his son with his own bloody hands. He continued the policies of his grandfather, Ivan III, of reducing nobles, ministers, merchants, and farmers to lowly groveling servants --the administrative system of Oprichnina, meaning subject to czar alone. His secret police spread terror throughout the country which expanded to Siberia and the region along the Volga River. He made Moscow the capital of Russia. The way of life became so unbearable and so intolerable for some Russians, including my old, old, old, old, old dead folks that they escaped and emigrated by boat and got as far as the northern part of the Philippines. To his credit, Czar Ivan The Terrible began diplomatic relations and trade with Western Powers and invited experts from other countries to improve local businesses and polish Russian military techniques. However, with all that outstanding accomplishment, his next of kin, Ivan V, wanted one change - changing his name to Peter I, The Great.
Paternal: Portugal, Spain, Bolivia
There long ago in the 7th century lives a Saint in the family ancestry - the Bishop of Tarazona in Spain.
Aurelius Prudentius Clemens (348-413?), a Roman Christian poet and lawyer. He was born in the province of Tarraconensis (now northern Spain) and towns of Caesaraugusto Saragossa, Tarraco Tarragona, or Calagurris Calahorra. He also served in the court under Emperor Theodosius I. His most famous allegorical poem is Psychomachia, a Greek word meaning a struggle or fight for life, conflict within one's soul. Other medieval scholars and Oxford University reviewers define it as a tortured struggle between vice and virtue. One reviewer of the his work asked, "Do you actually see the angel on your right shoulder and the devil on your left?" I must say yes, I don't only see it but feel it always.
Quote from Psychomachia: "Even in our bones, our double nature sounds."
Luxury in Psychomachia
His other great works among others:
Apotheosis - (Deification) - attacks the disclaimer of the Holy Trinity and divinity of Jesus.
Liber Cathemerinom - (Book in Accordance with the Hours) - comprises 12 lyric poems on various times of the day and on church festivals.
Liber Peristephanon - (Crowns of Martyrdom) - contains 14 lyric poems on Spanish and Roman martyrs.
Dittochaeon -- (The Double Testament) - contains 49 quatrains intended as captions for the murals of a basilica in Rome.
Other Past Distinguished Relatives:
Juan (1610-1657) - a Spanish writer and theologian
Fermin (? -1870 ) - a Bolivian lawyer and politician
Meliton (1887 -1959) - a Filipino mestizo and provincial treasurer
BLAZON OF ARMSAzure, a chain or, place in bend;
A bordure gules, charged with 8 soltires of the second.
Translation:
Azure (blue) denotes Truth
Crest: Three ostrich feathers
Origin: Spain
Published 1/6/11 Lib's Labyrinth
Blog Page: Maze: Lib's Deepest Roots
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SANTA LIBRADA, PATRON SAINT OF PANAMA
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