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Cruz is a surname of Iberian origin, first found in Castile, [citation needed] Spain, but later spread throughout the territories of the former Spanish and Portuguese Empires. In Spanish and Portuguese, the word means "cross", either the Christian cross or the figure of transecting lines or ways.
Hispanicized and pluralized form of vatan, the indigenous name for the province's main island, of obscure origin, similar to the etymology of Bataan above. The term batang has cognates across various Austronesian languages, mostly being a word that means "the main part of something," such as "trunk" or "body" [16] (see Batangas below). On a ...
Although several travelers who visited the Holy Land during the 12–14th centuries (e.g. Riccoldo da Monte di Croce, Burchard of Mount Sion, and James of Verona), mention a "Via Sacra", i.e. a settled route that pilgrims followed, there is nothing in their accounts to identify this with the Way of the Cross, as we understand it. [15]
Margariteño musician and composer José Elías "Chelías" Villaroel proposes an alternate etymology for the malagueña, suggesting that the genre was originally entitled halagüeña (from halagar "to flatter") due to the flattering nature of the lyrics, and only later was the "m" added via conflation with the existing musical styles from Spain ...
The Our Lady of Maulawin (Spanish: Nuestra Señora de Maulawin, Filipino: Mahal na Birhen ng Maulawin) also known as the Virgin of Maulawin (Spanish: Virgen de Maulawin) and Virgin of Molave (Spanish: Virgen de Molave) is an Aglipayan title of the Blessed Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus venerated by the Iglesia Filipina Independiente, one of only two images of the Virgin Mary ( the other the Our ...
The claim: Donald Trump can't travel to Canada because he is a convicted felon. A Dec. 3 Threads post (direct link, archive link) offers a theory as to why Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ...
"When considering lifestyle changes to improve health, people often overlook the benefits of laughter," Michael Richardson, M.D., a family physician with Carbon Health in Boston, told Fox News ...
The term fulía refers to a variety of folk genres in Venezuela generally performed as part of the vigils of the Cruz de Mayo. [1] [2] Of these genres, there are two that are especially prominent: the fulía central (spanning the coastal areas of the Capital, Central, and Central-Western regions, notably Barlovento) [3] and the fulía oriental (Spanish:"Eastern fulía") or cumanesa (Spanish ...