The Dominicans
The Domincans today (Philippines):
The Dominican priests run top universities namely:
-Unibersidad ng Santo Tomas (Asia's oldest university)
-Colegio de San Juan de Letran (399 year-old college)
Along side this, they run two general hospitals:
- University of Santo Tomas Hospital
- Aquinas University Hospital in Legazpi)
and a charity hospital, San Martin de Porres Hospital, in San Juan.
The Dominicans before (Philippines):
During the Spanish Colonialism, the Dominicans are in charge of the University of Manila. The University was attended with a number of natives ranging between two to three thousand. The following account of the studies pursued in the University, taken from the official report of the year 1893–1894, is a sufficient answer to the unworthy remark of the correspondent from Daily Telegraph which states "the education of the people has been exclusively in their (the religious’) hands, it is enough to say that practically it does not exist."
COURSE STUDIES:
The Faculty of Theology and Canon Law has the following courses of lectures:—
A course of Ontology, Cosmology, and Natural Religion.
The Controversial Course.
Dogmatic Theology.
Moral Theology and Sacred Eloquence.
Sacred Scripture.[24]
Canon Law.
Ecclesiastical Procedure and Discipline, especially as used in Churches in the East.
Ecclesiastical History.
The eight lecturers in this faculty were Dominicans. There were thirty students.
FACULTY OF JURISPRUDENCE.
Metaphysics.
Spanish Literature.
Constitutional History of Spain and Natural Law.
Canon Law.
Political Economy.
Ecclesiastical Discipline.
There were six Dominican and nine other professors teaching in this faculty. The students numbered 405.
FACULTY OF LAW.
In this faculty one Dominican and eleven other professors lectured. There were 60 students.
FACULTY OF MEDICINE.
Physics.
Chemistry.
Mineralogy and Botany.
Three Dominican and thirteen other professors lectured in this faculty. There were 277 students.
FACULTY OF PHARMACY.
There were 89 students. In the schools of practical pharmacy there were 216 students. Three Dominicans, who lectured on Chemistry, Zoölogy, Mineralogy, and Botany, and seven other professors taught in this faculty.
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Filipino priest Fr. Gerard Francisco Timoner III has been elected the new Master of the Order of Preachers (OP), more popularly known as the