Showing posts with label Marikina. Show all posts
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Monday, May 3, 2021

The CDM Foundation: the Administrator of the Descendancy of Lakan Dula, the Last King of Manila

 

          The CDM Foundation or Ceferino Dulay Memorial Foundation ,Inc  was established in honor of Ceferino Rivas Dulay, the 4th traditional leader of the Dulay Clan of Northern Samar and Marikina Valley, and is known today for his teachings. The foundation is the  safe keeper and administrator of the traditions of the clan, the descendants of Lakan Dula of Tondo - the last King of Manila, and the guide for the future generations. This foundation was organized by the leaders of the Dulay Clan of Candawid, Laoang, Northern Samar and Marikina Valley after the death of Ceferino Rivas Dulay.

   The descendants of Lakan Dula of Tondo wish to thank our traditional corporate supporters like ATTY. ERIC BUHAIN of REX BOOKSTORE in their support for our "school supplies for the poor projects", and for the "Baybayin Festival". We also thank OSCAR LOPEZ of the LOPEZ GROUP FOUNDATION for their support on our feeding programs.


Pro - Poor Community Projects and Advocacy
In accordance with the teachings of 4th generation leader of the Dulay Clan of Candawid and Marikina Valley, Ceferino Rivas Dulay, the CDM Foundation pursues pro - poor community projects like the "Fruit - Bearing Trees Tree Planting Projects" in cooperation with the Marikina City Police, "School Supplies Para Sa Mahihihrap" in cooperation with the Rex Book Store  and the Tau Gamma/Triskillion Fraternity, "Dance for a Cause" for the benefit of the Columbian Squires of the Knights of 
                                               Columbus Concepcion Council 7631, financial assistance for individual in needs and for other small organization's project, scholarship support to those who pursue Roman Catholic Priesthood, support to the church - based cooperatives, advocacy to make the Our Lady of the Abandoned a Cathedral, support for the the Knights of Columbus by among others administering their Facebook Group, library improvement projects, faculty development projects and sports development projects. for so many years, the foundation had been silently doing these pro - poor projects.

CDM Foundation in action.....

PREPARING THE SCHOOL SUPPLIES PARA SA MAHIHIRAP: at CDM Foundation HQ  members of the I-Toti Execom set the project into motion. From left to right CDM Foundation President Toti Dulay, Ross Vaness Ramos, I-Toti Vice Chair Roger NotarteDaisy JuguetaHester Cheng and CDM Foundation Executive Director Carmela Ibanez. Earlier, the group met with leaders of transport group led by Anna at Shakeys Marquinton, then the group met with Triskillon -Tau Gamma led by Art Palmiano at kawayanan and supported the group with school supplies for their balik eskwela project in the second district. On Wednesday, the I-Toti will go to public schools to donate school supplies to the principals with instruction that these supplies be given to poor students. Tomorrow, my son SK Kgd Esdee Dulay will donate school supplies to OLA Social Action Group. The CDM Foundation wishes to thank Rex Book Store for their support to the School Supplies para sa Mahihirap Project...
 
SCHOOL SUPPLIES PARA SA MAHIHIRAP: CDM Foundation Prof. Toti Dulay is donating thousands of assorted school supplies from Rex Book Store to Principal Regino M. Pagtama, Jr. of Concepcion Elementary School.The donation coincided with the first flag ceremony of the school year attended by students, teachers and parents. Dulay was requested to speak and he told the students to "study hard and dedicate your success in life as well as share your graces to our alma mater." He is accompanied by I-Toti Mo Na Yan Youth Adviser Hester Cheng and I-Toti Mo Na Yan Execom Member Ross Vaness Ramos. The Concepcion event is the last leg of series of donations of school supplies for the poor inititiated by Rex Bookstore, CDM Foundation, Tau Gamma, Skillion and individual partners. Dulay is former consultant of the Office of Mayor Marides Fernando

 
SCHOOL SUPPLIES PARA SA MAHIHIRAP. SK Kgd Esdee Dulay is giving school supplies for the poor from Rex Bookstore to Social Action Group of Our Lady of the Abandoned where he was an altar boy from grade 5 to high school. Now that he is a prelaw student in UP, he does not serve the altar anymore. He was the Prom King of Marist Graduation ball with his partner Luisa Roque winning the Prom Queen. Esdee was an Interbarangay Basketball Player of San Roque and a Varsity Player of Marist. He wants to be a corporate lawyer someday.Together with his causins SK Kgd Catherine Dulay of Marikina Heights and Sk Kgd Melvin John Dulay of Calumpang, they are the next bunch of Dulay Clan members in Marikina politics. http://www.facebook.com/groups/419241528116282/.

Prof. Toti Dulay talks with around 100 people in a depressed area in E.de Guzman St., in Concepcion Uno after Willy Fred Amacio, Kabayani Parang Chairman and Dennis Alexander Villoso, Magdalo Group leader of Marikina delivered their talks. A group of Batang Coop officers and members are denouncing the city hall for neglecting them. The CDM Foundation provided them food and  some games, bingo social.
GRASSROOTS ISSUES,PICNIC AND BINGO: Prof. Toti Dulay and businessman Willy Fred Amacio  together with  Chris Llabres, Senyong Gonzales, Ricky Khoo and Boy Nepomuceno is embarking on a series of consultations directly with the people in different barangays in the second district of Marikina to hear directly from the masses their pressing concern through picnic and bingo. In this picnic held in a depressed area in Nangka, the concern is the 90 meters rumored easement from the river. Prof. Dulay and Amacio suggested that people should work directly with CMP because it will helped them purchase the lot, deal with the local government and the owners of the lot. Then, Prof. Dulay met with Councilor Boggs Reyes at Chowking Marikina Heights to clear some issues ; before proceeding to the General Assembly of Holy Family Credit Cooperative in Parang where Prof. Dulay pledged to invest P10,000 and encouraged everyone to invest too by transferring their savings from the bank to cooperative where you earn bigger interest at the same time help the community. Then, the group of Prof. Dulay and Amacio went to their HQ in Parang to plan for next activities before meeting with Ofre Yuraba Corpuz, the vice chairman of Herbosa Homeowners Association and Chairman of Holy Family Credit Cooperative.
 
Descendancy Trust Fund (DTF)
This trust fund is created to ensure the continuity of the tra- ditional leadership and administration of the descendancy. Along side with this is the continuous research and propagation on the history, culture, symbols, artifacts, traditions, legend, myth and practices revolving around Lakan Dula of Tondo and his current descendants. Donations to DTF is welcome from among the descendants and non-descendants alike, however, it does not accept anonymous donations because it is a policy to prepare a list of DTF donors which we is called "founders group". If a donor wanted to be an anonymous, he must personally inform the hereditary leader at the ancestral house in Marikina Valley of his identity before his donation is accepted. Donations may be rejected if it will put the descendancy into a compromised light. The CDM Foundation is not actively campaigning for the DTF Project from sources outside of the clan since for the past years, it had been independently and silently pursuing projects with funds coming from the children and grand children of Ceferino Rivas Dulay.
 
CDM Foundation in action......
 
BE THE CHAMPION OF THE POOR: CDM Foundation President Sofronio Dulay, in one of the affairs in Malacanang Palace in Manila, the Official Residence of the Philippine President. His philosopshy has always been   be the "beggar for the poor", meaning, equalize rich and poor by negotiating resources from the rich towards the poor.

EXTERNAL RESOURCES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF MARIKINA: the strategy is to network for resources outside of Marikina and bring it down inside Marikina...long term...this is one of the topics discussed at 
the Dulay ancestral house among Prof. Toti Dulay; Prof. Ester Mendoza; Master - Conec, Inc. SVP Ester Susan Dulay (daughter of Quirino Governor Orlando Dulay);
Judge Crisanto Cornejo (former President of Nationalista Party and national president of National Fraternal of Eagles and son of Mayor Miguel Cornejo of Pasay City) and Roger Notarte, Project Director of the CDM Foundation. Before the dinner, we did the "Dine with the  Ancestor Ritual" of red wine and grapes among Dulay Clan members.After dinner, we did bonding in the videokee with old songs....it was a nice evening of true friendship...
 
BE LOYAL TO YOUR INSTITUTION. As a professional consultant of Marikina Mayor Marides Carlos Fernando, CDM President Toti Dulay tried to initiate pro - poor projects  like the Grameen Bank type of savings and loan association, Habitat For Humanity Housing Project, Kundiman Contest,  no placement fee going abroad for poor marikenos, child welfare projects, etc.. As a consultant, he learned his lessons dealing with bureaucratic red tape and kuskos balungos...he maintained his cool and did not push for things that can not be done at the level of readiness of the people around him. He learned to accept the facts of life.


THANKSGIVING: at the height of the Habagat, we posted the Oratio Imperata in all major FB groups in Marikina and requested everyone to pray it. At my house, we prayed to Our Lady of the Abandoned the said prayer. The water level of the river went down. It was well documented in Marikina News including the comments as water level is slowly subsiding. I discussed this phenomenon with Fr. Buco, Fr. Estrada and Fr. Lagrimas and the consensus is that it may help in documenting the miracles of our shrine, needed in its bid to become a Cathedral. In the picture, Kabayani Vice Chairman Marion Andres and Hester Cheng, and others, celebrated the thanksgiving at the residence of Prof. Toti Dulay. Center picture shows Prof. Carmela Ibanez of the CDM Foundation donating to the Kabayani /I-Toti Mo Na Yan Relief Operations. At the third picture, Prof. Dulay holding their family poodle together with other members of the I-Toti ExeCom, during the simple thanksgiving.
The Globalist Manifesto Project
This project is an advocacy campaign for the propagation of The Globalist Manifesto. The manifesto was formulated in a classroom of the Asian Institute of Management. It paints a vision for the future world and prescribed 10 stages towards the formation of a global government. According to a Jewish scholar Avner Falk, in his book entitled "Islamic Terror: Conscious and Unconscious Motives" (2008,pp.46-46), a proactive form of globalization is emerging, spawned by international corporations that wish to loosen trade restrictions. It is the global financial firms that have been the most eager proponents of this expansion. A group of advocates from different parts of the world had been pushing for an integrated global society as envisioned in the Globalist Manifesto which is the foundation of globalism ideology.Globalization is supposed to have shaken up the traditional Muslim world and put it under siege (Ahmed and Donnan 1994; Mohammadi and Saltford 2002; Ahmed 2003). Yet the idealist Globalist Manifesto, created in the Philippines, is a paean to peace and prosperity. It paints an idealized picture of our world. It is wishful thinking at its most glaring.[1]

CDM Foundation in action....

JOIN THE KNIGHTS OF CO LUMBUS, TO SERVE GOD AND THE SOCIETY: I remem -ber recrui -ting Atty. Cesar Turiano, Dr. Jose Fabian Imperial Cadiz, and Tony Adamos to the Knights of Columbus Concepcion Council 7631 in the early nineties. I personally initiated the first Stations of the Cross Project which has become a tradition of the Council up to now. In the picture is my former deputy grand knight when I was the Grand Knight now State Officer Ding Caparas, with the present Grand Knight Fred Bobias, me, and former District Deputy and my Kumpadre Rick Orbin. Concepcion Council 7631 meets every SECOND SUNDAY OF THE MONTH, 9 AM AT THE CONCEPCION ACTIVITY CENTER.PLEASE LOOK AT THE PARISH BULLETIN BOARD FOR OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS.

MAKE THE "OUR LADY OF THE ABANDONED CHURCH" A CATHEDRAL: CDM Foundation President Prof. Toti Dulay donating an amount to teacher Larry Cinco for a project of St. Gabriel of our Lady of Sorrows Parish of Marikina Heights. The move to make OLA a Cathedral should be the concern of all Marikenos and one way to do
ded by Bishop Francis de Leon...konting efforts na lang magigi
 it is to make the parishes around it very stable. The Dulay Family has been investing to the coop
eratives of different parishes as a way to help them grow and be stable.We have already invested in OLA, Concepcion and Barangay Parang. Next would be Concepcion Dos and Nangka....karangalan nating lahat kung maging Cathedral na ang OLA. Sa ngayon, Shrine na sya, hea
ng Cathedral na to...
 
 
PLANT FRUIT BEARING TREES CAM PAIGN. The CDM Foundation received from Mari kina Police some nangka trees for tree planting on Saturday,Maya 12, 7 am at Butiki Park. The Marikina Chief of Police Gabriel Lopez and Prof. Toti Dulay, together with BPAT Leader Oscar Morales Angeles Jr., and I-Toti Mo Na Yan Vice Chairman Roger Notarte, holding some young fruit bearing trees. The Park Office led by Romeo Amurao will help us in the tree planting. Those who comfirmed attendance are Mayor Marides Fernando, Kabayani Vice Chairman Marion Andres, Councilor Bojie Bernardino, Councilor Boggs Reyes,Prof. Toti Dulay, Willy Fred Amacio, I-Toti Chairman Chris Llabres, Prof. Carmela Ibanez, Hester Cheng, I-Toti Vice Chairman Roger Notarte, Alelie Francisco, Leo Robles, Ofre Corpuz, Kgd Jojo Pintang, Marco Cope, and Bino Santiago.FRUIT BEARING TREES GIVE SHADES, FRUITS AND THE HAPPY MEMORIES OF YOUNG CHILDREN CLIMBING TREES.

ADVOCACY TO PLANT FRUIT BEARING TREES INSTEAD TO PROVIDE SHADES, FRUITS AND CHILDRENS EXPERIENCE TO CLIMB TREES. The CDM Foundation, in pursuance of this advocacy initiated a series of meetings at Shakeys, Bonchalet and 53rd, to finalize the tree planting project this coming Saturday. At 53rd is Bino Santiago, Hester Cheng, Prof Carmela Ibanez, Prof. Toti DulayMarco Margallo CopeWilly Fred Amacio , I-Toti Vice Chair Roger Notarte, I-Toti Chairman Chris LlabresDaisy JuguetaRoss Vaness Ramos,and Ofre Yuraba Corpuz. As discussed, Vice Mayor Cadiz approved the project, Park Office will porvide tools and personnel, Marikina Police provided the trees, Roger Notarte and Carmela Ibanez will provide the food, Doc Marion will provide the tent, Ross and Chris will design and provide the tarps and tags, Fred will provide vehicle to transper the plants to site, Marco will do the photography. I said last night: KAHIT SINONG DUMATINNG, KAHIT ANONG MANGYARI, TATANIM NATIN ANG MGA PUNONG YAN SA SABADO.

CDM Foundation SUPPORTS YOUTHS WHO WANT TO STUDY PRIEST HOOD: Parang SK Kagawad and Kabayani Youth Leader Juan Paolo Hernandez receives from Prof. Toti Dulay an amount for the studies to priesthood of his brother, Bro. Juan Carlo A. Hernandez at St. Camillus College Seminary in Marikina Heights. The event was held at Sweet Madies in Marikina Heights in a dinner meeting last May 23, as witnessed by Hester Cheng, Treasurer of the Ceferino Dulay Memorial Foundation, Inc. which has been traditionally supporting seminarians.Fr. Blas Dula Lagrimas was one of the beneficiaries. He is now taking masters degree at San Sebastian College.
 
PEOPLE OF THE WORLD SHOULD BE BUSI NESS ORIEN TED. Prof Toti Dulay is the resource speaker on business planning and management, with Far Eastern University professors as participants. Prof Dulay was the adviser of Taypen, Aquavendo and CocoSugar, business proposals of his students that won in the national competitions. Aquavendo and Cocosugar also competed internationally, in Harvard University. One of the advocacies of Prof Dulay is to develop the enterprising spirit of people all over the world because this will create jobs and reduce poverty.
 

    Marikina News is the longest running community newspaper in Marikina. It was intended to fight the “Marikina Apartheid” which discriminates against cosmopolitan Marikenos in political activities in town. When the fight was won, Marikina  News shifted to internet, promising to to return to circulation if needed again someday.  Own by the Dulay Clan of Marikina Valley, six Chairmen has led the paper: Dr. Jimmy Trinidad who died in office is from Sta.Elena; Judge Ricardo Diaz of Concepcion, Atty.Cesar Turiano of Nangka who became a Grand Knight and a Faithful Navigator of the Knights of Columbus; Dr. Fabian Cadiz of Sto.Nino is now the Vice Mayor of Marikina and Romeo Balasta of Barangka who migrated to Illinois. It has also a Facebook group with more than 2000 members.The present Chairman is Esdee Dulay, SK Kagawad of San Roque, Marikina and the 6th generation leader of the "Angkan ng Dulay dito sa Lambak ng Marikina"

At present, the Marikina News FB Group has 174,102 members and still growing at the average of 2000 membership request per week. With a city population of 410,000, around 42% of the population is a member of Marikina News, making the FB group a very influential instrument for social change in the city. At present, it is conducting a feeding program per barangay with the help from the donations of its members. It is also supporting Duterte's Kitchen.
 
 CDM Foundation in action....
 
EDUCATIONAL TOUR TO GAIN MORE KNOWLEDGE: CDM Foundation President Sofronio Dulay went to an educational tour to Korea to learn the latest technology in web - based teaching and publishing. He is the at the third from the left at the back row.

TO GET MORE NEWS, BE WHERE THE ACTION IS:shown in the picture in my table, in the wedding of Brian Tan and Angeline Cruz sa Marikina Convention Center kahapon: Willy Fred Amacio of Chairman of Kabayani Barangay Parang tells of the ongoing moves to consolidate all the Bisayans in the second district and connect with Sen. Koko Pimentel, a bisayan; Judge Andy Garalza, another bisayan, and Jun Perez said that since I was a consultant of MCF and campaigner of BF's national fight, kung pwede ko raw ibulong na ipasok sa Kabayani line up as councilor si Judge Garalza.I said that since he is from Concepcion Dos, the best Kabayani leaders to endorse him are my KC brod Bong Ubaldo and Dick Ifurong, chiarman ng Kabayani Concepcion Dos..I always respect the Kabayani chain of command...

KEEPING MY OPTIONS OPEN: we were discussing a letter to me from Malacanang for probable appointment in the GOCC instead of fighting Rep.Miro Quimbo. With me is Mae S. Lagunday Kababaihang Liberal and Admin of ATOM Philippines, and Prof. Carmela Ibanez, also of Kababaihang Liberal.Mae later proceeded to Balai, LP HQ, after our meeting in Max's ....I will be valuing the decision of BF and MCF and Kabayani....before I will do my own decision....as a sign of my respect to them...

Dulay Clan values education. To put that value into practice, the CDM Foundation helps and coordinates clan members to pursue education. It also releases an annual ranking of clan members based on education. The ranking only includes the direct bloodline of Ceferino who are in the college level.This is to encourage all members of Dulay Clan and descendants of Lakan Dula of Tondo to study hard. This is in accordance with the teaching of Ceferino Rivas Dulay on education which goes something like this: "Education is a necessity. Securing the education of your children is just like teaching them how to look for food when you are gone. No matter how fashionable or cocky you are, if you have no education, you are nothing. So, the best way to be popular and respected is to have good education. The higher the education, the better is the school, the better is the course - the better. Graduate with honors. Go for masteral and doctoral."
 
CDM Foundation in action....
 
BE FAMILY ORIENTED, HAPPY FATHER'S DAY SA LAHAT NG TATAY: we attended mass sa Shrine of Our Lady of the Abandoned, nabless kaming lahat ng mga tatay,  ni Fr. Gallardo, kasama ko si pareng Jojo Bernabe Banzon. Tapos, pumunta kami sa Tiendesitas sa Greenhills para kumain sa Claire de la Fuente Grille, kotse ng anak kong si Lenlen ang ginamit namin kaya prente ako sa likod hehehe, then, bumili kami ng 3 - months old Poodle para sa mga anak kong si Lenlen at Katya. Dose mil pala yung ganung aso, sabi ko nga askal na lang eh, marami sa Aranque...hehehehe. Gusto nga sana namin ni Esdee Dulay eh Siberian Husky eh. Sarap ng private life, walang atraso sa bayan, kasama pamilya lagi, sagana at walang issue na hinaharap....kung sakaling nasa gobyerno na ako, ganito pa rin gusto kong buhay - simple, modest, honest, walang atraso sa bayan at walang mataas na ambisyon na position at yaman...ok na ako sa simpleng buhay lang..living within my means.

WHATEVER IS YOUR WORK, DEDICATE IT TO GOD, DO IT WELL
. As a full time university professor of the Far Eastern University, CDM President Toti Dulay emphasizes EQ rather than IQ among his students. He has been consistently awarded Teaching Excellence Award by FEU based on the ratings on him by his students and Dean. Dulay emphasizes education, a first honorable mention graduate of what is now Marikina Science High School. He finished his four - year course in UP Diliman in only three years. Took his masters degree in  Asian Institute of Management who later elected him member of the board of its alumni association. He is now writing his doctoral dissertation  in Public Administration in UP NCPAG with leadership as his topic.

DULAY CLAN LEADERS Visited the Office of the CDM Foundation: From left to right: Roger NotarteJesus Romualdez Marcos and her daughter; Col Ruben Mendoza Sacaguing; Atty. Elpidio S DulayChris Llabres Chairman and Cheap of Stuff (hehehe) of the I-TOTI MO NA YAN BARKADAHAN NG MARIKINA; Atty. Eddie Dulay Mejos, Chief Finance ng COMELEC; NBI Special Agent Jun Mendoza Adato; Mrs. Elpidio Dulay, a nephew of Gov. Ebdane; and Prof. Carmela Ibanez, Executive Director of the Ceferino Dulay Memorial Foundation, Inc. 
 
CDM Foundation in action......
 
ADDITION TO THE DULAY CLAN OF MARIKINA VALLEY when Michael Alexander from the family of the Miranda Bookstore married Ma. Joyce Dulay, daughter of Bobby Dulay, head of Towing Section of Marikina City Hall and younger brother of Kabayani member Prof. Toti Dulay. A bunch of close relatives and friends from both sides served as ninongs ang ninangs: Lolita Cinco of Cinco Interprises, Eloteria Francisco, Dra. Lilian Miranda Cobarrubias, Patricia Valerio, Evelyn Mendoza of Parang, Rosalinda Cancino, Luzviminda Tejada and Edna Ponferrada. Ninongs are Vice Mayor Jose Fabian Imperial Cadiz, Vice Mayor Bartolome Rivera, me, Peter Castaneda, Charlie Mijares, Roberto Astrer, Alex Cataag and Jose Marty Domingo. As the head of the clan, my first advise to the newly wed couple is to have as many children as they can afford to send through college....pro life kasi ako eh...a "sensible pro life"...to add a few description.
 
        The projects aims to develop consciousness on pre - hispanic aristocracy among modern Filipinos. It creates awareness  on this identity and efforts are being initiated to identify and communicate individuals and families whose family history includes connection with Lakan Dula of Tondo, in one way or another. The Philippine history would say that the Spanish persecutions of the descendants of Lakan Dula continued and intensified, but a lot of descendants loyal to the  Lakan maintained their native surnames like lakandula, dula, dulay, gatdula, dulayan, abdullah, rebadulla, dulatre, duldulao, dulayba, lakandola, lacandalo, lacandola, lacandula, dula - torre  and many others revolving around the root word “dula”. During the intense persecution of the Spaniards on the native aristocracy, some descendants have to disregard the “dula” root word and adopted totally different native sounding surnames for disguise, like magsaysay, lontoc, agbayani, acuna, salonga, gatchalian, bacani, macapagal, guingona, gatpandan, pangilinan, sumuroy, dagohoy, kalaw, salalima, soliman, pilapil, mabini, pagdanganan, macalintal, angara, bamba, datumanong,  panganiban, katigbak, macarambon, sakay, aglipay, kasilag, salamat, karingal, kiram, daza, lacanilao, lacanlale, gatchalian,  manalo, lagumbay, tamano, ilagan, bunye, pangandaman, maliksi, silang, badoy, puno, lapid, ziga, nalupta, binay, gatbonton, sinsuat, capulong, puyat, gatmaitan, macuja, dagami, ablan, capinpin, punongbayan, madlangbayan, gatlabayan, batungbakal, cabangbang, sumulong, gustilio, calungsod, capangoy, kapunan, etc, but continued fighting for the liberation of  the natives from Spain. Some of the descendents hid their Lakan Dula heritage by changing their names into the likes of  guevara,  aguinaldo, legaspi, aquino, mendoza, osmena, de Leon, estanislao, laurel, fernando, ejercito, delapaz, mercado, santos, bonifacio, de guzman, etc, while some adopted chinese surnames of their mother like lim, uy, go, tan, etc, but they continued to pursue a belligerant posture against Spain.

CDM Foundation in action...........

Descendants of Lakan Dula: CDM Foun dation President Toti Dulay was invited as a witness to the graduation of Fr. Blas Dula Lagrimas, as a priest at the Recoletos School of Theology. Fr. Blas is one of the Descendants of Lakan Dula. I am happy and relieved. Happy because our family has produced another priest. Relieved because our regular financial assistant to his studies will be over and channel them to other people who may need assistance. Thanks God for everything. http://www.facebook.com/groups/111695462280580/

MASTERAL THESIS...
Fr. Blas Dula Lag rimas, just finished priest hood.He wants to pursue his masteral.The Dulay Family will continue supporting him. I requested him however to make his masteral thesis about the evangelization of Lakan Dula and his descendants. Was he baptized into Catholicsm? Is there a baptismal certificate to show? If yes, what was the Christian name he used? What is the history of Isla de Batag and Candawid in Samar and Samara, in Aringay. What was the name of the son of David Dula y Goiti who left Candawid in Samar, and married a pretty girl from La Union which started the Dulay Clan in Samara, Aringay and spread out to became the Dulay of the north.
 
DESCENDANTS OF LAKAN DULA: Fr. Blas Dula Lagrimas is explai ning to Prof. Toti Dulay his initial indings about his Masteral Thesis in San Sebastian about the "Evangelization of the Descendants of Lakan Dula". Fr. Lagrimas has been supported by the CDM Foundation on his study of priesthood and now, masteral degree. One of his findings is that former Mayor Hilario Dulay, father of Mayor Eleuterio Dulay of Laoang, Northern Samar inherited tracts of land from the estate of David Dula y Goiti in Candawid (Kan David), Isla de Batag, Laoang, but he gave it back to the estate later controlled by the the family of Candawid Barangay Kap.Macario Dulay. David Dula y Goiti is a grandson of Lakan Dula and the financier of the Sumuroy Revolt. This is a proof that the Dulay of Laoang, Samar all came from Candawid. Another findings is that Lakan Dula of Tondo is different from Carlos Lacandola of Arayat, Pampanga, because they have a different set of children. Carlos Lacandola is the great great grandfather of PGMA.

Copies of the book on Lakan Dula is available at the CDM Foundation office at the Dulay ancestral house for the  members of the Dulay Clan who visits their ancestral house.
 Revisons will be done defending on the findings of Fr. Blas Dula Lagrimas.

FAMILY HISTORIES ACCREDITATION

The CDM Foundation will help you review your family history and accredit it if its within the Lakan Dula Kingdom. If the family history does not seem to be related with the kingdom, our clan historians will suggest further research. Once your history was declared accurate or logically probable, it will be included in the central files of family histories of the Lakan Dula Kingdom.



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Saturday, May 1, 2021

The Dulay Mendoza Family of Spain and the Philippines

 Abstract:

        The Mendoza family came from a noble line in Spain. The principalia family in Marikina Valley in the Philippines is a sephardi jewish Mendoza which originated from Spain. The noble family of Tondo is known for marrying into different noble lines such as the Bolkiah of Brunei, the Doyley of the United Kingdom, the  Mendoza and Goiti of Spain, and the Uy Jaucian Li Chinese clan of Daraga Albay married into the Sumulong Berenguer de Marquina family -- as a way of preserving the Lakanate of Tondo. The lineage of the nobility of Tondo have been involved in heroism and some of treachery, such as the Sumuroy revolt involving the Romualdez and the suppression of native uprisings involving the Macapagal. The Macapagal shared the Tondo nobility with the Dulay and the Capulong through the lineage of Batang Dula, the eldest and heir apparent of Lakan Dula. Although a member of the Dulay family was married to a Tallano family who is claiming ownership of the  land title of the Hacienda Pilipinas covering the entire country which is known as Maharlika,  the Patriarch of the descendants of Lakan Dula, on the contrary, belongs to an extremely private and secretive cadet line Dulay Mendoza Family of Marikina Valley, Tondo, Northern Samar and La Union and they have a vision for a just, peaceful and prosperous country as a way of respect to  their ancestry.

Introduction

        The Mendoza family was a powerful line of Spanish nobles. Members of the family wielded considerable power, especially from the 14th to the 17th centuries in Castile. The family originated from the village of Mendoza in the province of Álava in the Basque countries, with the seigneury becoming part of the Kingdom of Castile during the reign of Alfonso XI (1312–1350). The Mendozas participated in Castilian politics afterward, with its scions becoming advisers, administrators, and clerics. Its different branches and names expanded out of its original nucleus in later centuries. The place-name and surname Mendoza stems from two Basque words: "mend(i)"+"oza", meaning 'cold mountain', with a dropped "i" in between. Álava is a hilly region with a core flat area (the Plains of Álava) bounded at the time by the kingdoms of Castile, and the Navarre in the 13th and 14th century. It had been loosely controlled by Navarre earlier, and retained its own distinctive customs and traditions. The town of Mendoza and the province of Álava itself was also a battlefield, where the clashing noble families of the area settled their disputes for generations. In
1332, the Mendozas had already been there for at least a century,
struggling with the rival clans, such as the Ayala, Orozco, and Velasco. They traced themselves as a stem of the House of Haro, another powerful clan of the Basque countries. Once the Castilian Civil War came to an end with the triumph of Queen Isabella of Castile, the Basque inter clan warfare generally ended as well, but even way before, since the 14th century, the Mendoza were jostling for position and privilege in Castile, an expanding military power. By virtue of the Mendozas' status as knights and free men, they became Castilian nobility with Álava's annexation (hidalgos). All members of the noble class were knights, administrators, or lawyers, and served in the administration of the realm. The largest family's responsibility was to form and maintain a local army that could be made available if called by the king. The highest nobility became direct vassals of the king.During most of the reign of the Catholic Monarchs no serious conflicts arose between the nobles or crises occurred nationally able to test the cohesion of the family. Tendilla and cousins, separated from the main branch by the expansion of a
prolific family and geographic dispersion of their political careers, were delivered, every one by his side, to ensure success without further consideration to the family as a whole. When probate litigation generated, again, serious conflicts in Castile, Mendoza could not or would not act as a group, particularly Tendilla adopted positions against the rest of the family. In the atmosphere of crisis and rebellion that gripped Castile death of Isabella in 1504, the Mendoza family was forced to choose between their traditional political support for the Trastámara dynasty, whose last representative was Ferdinand, who had cemented the family's success in the past and set the new policy, or to support the new dynasty of Burgundy. The third Duke of the Infantry, the nominal head of Mendozas, and the constable, who actually ran the affairs of the family, favored the Burgundy. Tendilla preferred to keep the tradition. While Castile was under Trastámara government, its policy was successful, when it became clear that the dynasty would die out in Castile, the position taken by Tendilla proved detrimental to its political and material prosperity, preventing the family act together and weakening Mendoza efficiency of the whole (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Mendoza.)
 

        Marikina was once the Hacienda Sauza-Berenguer de Marquina (1809-1870), the land and home was formerly owned by Don Santiago Sauza y Delos Rios (1777-1880) and his wife Dona Ysabel Berenguer de Marquina y Sumulong (1790-1900). Moreover, Doña Ysabel Berenguer de Marquina y Sumulong (19 November 1790, Cagsawa, Daraga,  Albay, Philippines - 30 January 1900, Banwa, Batan, Aklan, Philippines) was the only daughter of Doña Demetria Sumulong y Lindo and of Señor Felix Berenguer de Marquina y FitzGerald, the former Governor General of the Philippines and from the Royal House of FitzGerald of Ireland (familiasauza).The surname Sumulong is one of the Lakan Dula descendants who settled in Jesus de la Pena together with Dumandan, Capangoy, Dulay, Gatdula and Gatlabayan. The group of families led by Sumulong, Gatdula and Gatlabayan "ay sumulong papuntang bundok ng Antipolo" from Jesus de la Pena using the present Sumulong Highway route, and from then on, that is the name that the Kingdom of Tondo called them. 

I-Witness of GMA TV Featured the 5th Patriarch of the Dulay Mendoza Clan of Marikina Valley
















        This family who descended from Lakan Dula owned the Hacienda, but as to how it was acquired by the Tuason is still a historical mystery. The Tuasons are also relatives of the Sauza. There are wild stories that an adopted child of the Sauza sold the hacienda to the Tuasons. There are other stories that the hacienda was slowly squandered in a gambling called “panggingge” to the Tuasons. The most acknowledged version is that the Tuasons got the hacienda by force through political connections with the Spanish government.
However, the first gobernadorcillo of Marikina is actually Don Benito Mendoza. An adventurous son of a Sephardic Jew Spanish couple, the young Benito left his brothers and sisters at the Lakanate of Lawan and tried his luck in Tondo. He was in love with a pretty daughter of high ranking maginoo family of the Kingdom of Tondo who decided to settle in Jesus de la Pena in the present Marikina Valley and later to Antipolo to escape the Spanish persecution of the native nobility. The lineage of that maginoo family of today carries the surname of Sumulong and Gatlabayan. Benito is the oldest of six siblings, and he inherited the headship of the native settlement in what is now called Jesus de la Pena in Marikina and was eventually appointed by the Kingdom of Spain as the first gobernadorcillo of Marikina Valley. According to a member of the Mendoza Clan of Marikina UP Professor Jaime Mendoza Caro, the following members of the Mendoza principalia clan has served Marikina in the following capacities:


The Origin of Mendoza Dulay Bloodline


















1. Don Benito Mendoza, founding Gobernadorcillo 1787

2. Don Lucas Mendoza, Gobernadorcillo 1803

3. Don Mariano Mendoza, Alkalde 1843

4. Don Rufino Mendoza, Alkalde 1851

5. Don Isabelo Mendoza, Presidente 1910-1911

6. Eugenio Mendoza, Presidente, 1919-23

7. Osmundo De Guzmán (Mendoza), Mayor 1960-86


        The 1st Las Familias Unidas happened on 25 December 1850 at Hacienda Sauza-Berenguer de Marquina, Pueblo de Marikina (presently Marikina City), Provincia De Tondo, Las Islas Filipinas and the 91st Las Familias Unidas was held on 25 December 1941 hosted by Demetrio Sauza y Mendoza and wife Cornelia Palmos. Unlike the Mendoza’s where several streets are name today, Marikenyos are curious about where are the Sauzas of Marikina now. There seem to be some intermarriages between the Sauza and the Mendoza. The Sauza are said to be found in the present Barangays Sto. Nino and Sta. Elena in Marikina and in the vicinity of the oldest church of Marikina in Jesus de la Pena where the Lakan Dula descendants first settled but no street has been named after the family so far. The Mendozas on the other hand are found along the present location of Our Lady of the Abandoned Church where the first Church of Marikina in Jesus de la Pena was transferred. Several streets had been named after the family.  Intermarriages among the principalia families in Marikina and in Tondo are very much an old practice among native nobilities.
  
        References: https://familiasauza.webs.com/. Retrieved December 22, 2019 , http://fsbmc.yolasite.com/about-us.php. December 22, 2019

        Martín de Goiti (c. 1534 – 1575) was one of the soldiers who accompanied the Spanish colonization of the East Indies and the Pacific in 1565. From his base in Mexico City, he led the expedition to Manila ordered by Miguel López de Legazpi in 1569. He then engaged in battles against Rajah Sulayman, Rajah Matanda, and Lakandula of the kingdoms in Luzon in order to colonise the land.The Spaniards arrived in Luzon on May 8, 1570, and camped on the shores of Manila Bay for several weeks, while forming an alliance with the Muslims. On May 24, 1570, disputes and hostility erupted between the two groups. The Spaniards occupied the city of Tondo where they were greeted with thousands of warriors. There, they defeated most of Tariq Suleiman's (سليمان), Rajah Matanda's (ऋअज अतन्द), and Lakandula (王杜拉) people. The Spaniards marched their armies towards the Pasig River, and occupied the settlements in Manila on June 6, 1570 and burned them.Guerrilla warfare
broke out
following the battle, which continued for about ten months. The Spaniards fortified themselves in the area and constructed their military barracks of Fort Santiago, which became their outpost for trade with Mexico. The Spaniards gained control of the settlements on June 24, 1571, after the arrival of Miguel López de Legazpi in Manila, who agreed to a peace agreement sealed by betrothing one of his half-caste (Half Aztec and Half Spanish) daughters to Batang Dula, heir apparent of Lakan Dula. Eventually their descendants unified the 3 royal houses of Tariq Suleiman, Rajah Matanda and Lakan Dula with the half-Aztec and half Spanish de Goiti family. The Dula y Goiti family married with the Mendoza family who were Catholic Sephardic Hebrews and to mark the dynasty, changed the surname to Dulay. However, upon the commencement of persecutions the Dulay family's descendants changed their surnames even further and thus we have the Salonga and Macapagal families that are known descendants of these royal houses but subsist under a different family name.The Spanish colonization paved the way for the establishment of Manila as a permanent settlement and capital city of the Spanish East Indies. He later explored Pampanga, Pangasinan and founded several Spanish cities in Luzon between the periods of 1571 -1573. De Goiti, along with other soldiers were granted with haciendas (estates) for the lands they had conquered, by Philip II of Spain.In 1574, De Goiti fought in the war during the invasion of about 3,000 Chinese sea pirates who had sailed from the South China sea. Their leader, Limahong, besieged on the Spanish settlements in Manila. De Goiti was killed by these pirates. Most of the Spanish reinforcements came from Vigan and Cebu. Martín de Goiti's second in command, Juan de Salcedo left Ilocos Sur, after hearing the news and traveled to Manila where he discovered their settlements had been ceded to the pirates. Salcedo's forces
attacked and drove the pirates out of Manila. Limahong and his fleets retreated to
Pangasinan where they reorganized their forces. In 1575, Salcedo's army marched north to Pangasinan, in pursuit of the pirates, and besieged them for three months ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_de_Goiti )

         
The Tioco family was a very rich and generous family from Old Tondo. They owned numerous fishing boats in Tondo and Malabon. Siblings Balbino Tioco and Romana Tioco were illustrious citizens and famous Tondo benefactors of the 19th century. Balbino’s son Maximiano was kidnapped in the late 19th century and ransomed for 3 “kaings” of gold. Maximiano was married to a spanish mestiza Marciana Félix (same Félix family as Joji Félix Velarde and Conchita Félix wife of Felipe Calderón of the Malolos Constitution). Maximiano married Teodorica Ylo (The Cabangis family are also descended from the Ylo’s) They bore 5 children, Nemesio, Salvador, “Beot”, Guadalupe (married to Don Eduardo Barretto), Consuelo (married to Dr Rufino Mendoza, son of Don Isabelo Mendoza de Villablanca, a direct descendant of the spaniard Don Benito Mendoza, first gobernadorcillo of Mariquina in 1787. Benito’s great granddaughter Juana Mendoza Cerbito married Ceferino Dulay, a patriarch of the Rajah Lakandula/Dulay clan. Long after the family had left Old Tondo for the plush villages of Makati 
and other parts of Manila, there remains Calle Romana* in honor of Romana Tioco, and Calle Tioco* in honor of Balbino and Romana, two personages of the same family in gratitude for their inexhaustible generosity to Tondo. (J.Antonio Mendoza y González said onJune 27, 2010*Daluyan : A Historical Dictionary of the Streets of Manila, Printed by NHI. https://remembranceofthingsawry.wordpress.com /2010/06/ 01/ the-families-of-old-tondo/ retrieved on May 30, 2019)
 
         With a letter from the Kingdom of Spain, the 5th hereditary patriarch of the Dulay Mendoza Clan of Marikina Valley was anointed  by the Sto, Nino de Tondo Church  as the Patriarch of the House of Dula of the Lakanate of Tondo. The Sto. Nino de Tondo Church plays a significant role in the restoration of the Philippine nobility because it was the Palace of Lakan Bunao Dula, the last King of the Kingdom  of Tondo. The 5th Patriarch of the Dulay Mendoza Clan of Marikina Valley was inducted as the Grand Patriarch  of the  Principalia Hereditary Council of the Philippines. This is the ruling council of several ancient royal houses and principalia families in the Philippines. The council is involve in several advocacies and activities like the rebellion sports (Kali/Arnis), Baybayin, Kundiman, Tinalak, Dine with the Ancestors Ritual, "Sumpa ni Lakan Dula", Ophir, Lakanate of Lawan research, Indigenous Filipinos, Recovery of Doctrina Cristiana, Bagong Bagani Awards, 35th Sultan of Sulu and Sabah, Annual Pilgrimage to Sto Nino de Tondo and some other specific concerns brought to their attention, like the objections of the people of San Francisco del Monte to change their street to FPJ but they are supportive of changing the Roosevelt Avenue instead.

      

 The Reigning Patriarch of the House of Lakan Dula of Tondo







 




Romualdez were in the Sumuroy Revolt

        Daniel Zialcita Romualdez (September 11, 1907 – March 22, 1965) was a Filipino politician who served as Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from 1957 to 1962. Daniel "Danieling" Romualdez was born in Tolosa, Leyte. His father, Miguel, once served as an assemblyman for Leyte and mayor of the city of Manila. His great-grandfather was involved in the Sumuroy Revolt but narrowly escaped Spanish execution when he was allowed by David Dula to visit his ailing mother. Dula and his seven trusted men were later executed in Palapag, Northern Samar and were buried in unmarked graves without Roman Catholic rites. Superstitions existed that a Romualdez was to die that day in Palapag. More than fifty years later, Philippine Supreme Court Associate Justice Norberto Romuáldez, Danieling's famous uncle and the man who made their surname distinguished in society, would suddenly die of a heart attack in Palapag, hometown of his second wife Beatriz, daughter of the parish priest Fray Salustiano Buz, who insisted on campaigning at the grassroots level for the Philippine Senate elections when he was almost guaranteed to win on account of his nationwide reputation. Source: https://ipfs.io › ipfs › wiki › Daniel_Romualdez . Retrieved August 10, 2019


         Macapagal (rare variant: Makapagal) is a Filipino surname derived from the Kapampangan language.The family claims noble descent from Dola de Goiti Dula, a legitimate grandchild of Lakan Dula, the last "王" or King of Tondo "東都" (Dongdu). It is the only known branch of the Seludong's royal family to have survived the Majapahit Empire's invasion, the Sultanate of Brunei's pogrom against native royals, Chinese warlord Limahong's massacres, and the fallout from the Tondo Conspiracy. The family survived due to Martin de Goiti's giving of his Mestiza (Half Aztec and Half-Spanish) daughter in marriage to Batang Dula, the eldest son of Lakan Bunao Dula of the Lakanate of Tondo. As time went on, they incorporated the descendants from the two other royal houses: the house of Rajah Matanda (ऋअज ंअतन्द) and the house of Tariq Suleiman (سليمان).The family then migrated to Pampanga and Northern Samar after the Spanish assumed control of Manila

The family then migrated to Pampanga and Northern Samar after the Spanish assumed control of Manila.

The following are people possessing the Macapagal surname:



A Grandson of Lakan Dula died a Hero, Another Grandson ended as a Traitor


      A grandson of Lakan Dula, a mestizo by the name of David Dula y Goiti, escaped the persecution of the descendants of Lakan Dula by settling in Isla de Batag, Northern Samar and settled in a place now called Candawid. He was imprisoned by Spanish soldiers in Palapag and was executed together with several followers. They were charged of treason with planning to attack the Spanish settlement.

     The current David Dulay descendants are the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Petre, Hilario father of Eleuterio Dulay, Sr. of Laoang, N. Samar and a mayor for more than 20 years during the Marcos Regime died of heart ailment. The other descendants are those carrying the surname Dula related to Councilor Rufo Dula. Wishing to avoid the persecution experienced by his latter ancestors, Lakan Dula’s great grandson Juan Macapagal aided the Spanish authorities in suppressing the 1660 Kapampangan revolt of Francisco Maniago and the Pangasinan revolt of Andrés Malong and the 1661 Ilocano revolt. The Ilocano revolt was headed by warrior tribes from Eastern Pangasinan, the Nozuelo and Moreno clans.Because of his service to the Spanish crown, the Spanish authorities revived the special privileges offered by the Spanish crown to Lakan Dula and his descendants spread across the province of Pampanga. A Gremio de Lakandulas was created in 1758 to protect the privileges of the Kapampangan descendants of Lakandula.During the British occupation of Manila in 1762-1764, the descendants of Lakan Dula, now located in the province of Pampanga, formed a group of volunteers to fight the British and were granted autonomy by Governor General Simón de Anda y Salazar.

Source:

Enrique Bustos said on June 27, 2010 at 8:40 am

https://remembranceofthingsawry.wordpress.com/2010/06/02/the-families-of-old-binondo-manila/ retrieved May 30, 2019


The Dulay Mendoza Clan  envisions a just, peaceful and prosperous country as a way of respect to our ancestors.......


Atty. Sofronio Dulay ll 

Notary Public 

Associate, Andres Padernal and Paras Law Offices 

8th Floor, Sagittarius Office Condominium 111 H. V. Dela Costa St., Salcedo Village, Barangay Bel - Air, Makati City, 1209 

Tel. (632)8553-0889; Fax. (632) 834-7910 Cel. 0917 - 5689085 E-mail: scd@applawoffices.com  Website: www.applawoffices.com

    Attorney Sofronio Dulay ll -- Esdee as he is called by his friends -- as a kid was a sacristan at the Shrine of the Our Lady of the Abandoned in Marikina from elementary up to the end of high school. He became a member of the San Roque Inter Barangay Basketball Team and was later elected as SK Kagawad. He went to an all boys school in his native Marikina, Marist, and became a varsity player. He was chosen to represent his section in the Search for Mr. Marist and was chosen as the Prom King in their graduation ball. He entered the University of the Philippines and was elected Councilor of the UP NCPAG Student Council and Vice Chairman of the Upsilon Sigma Phi. He was the captain ball of the NCPAG Basketball Team. He entered the UP College of Law and represented the school in a debating team that won the national championship. He represented the Philippines in an international debate competition with special award. He was the  captain ball of the UP College of Law Basketball Team, and vice chair of the college of law debaters union. He passed the bar with a grade of 94% in Commercial Law. He joined the Makati - based law firm of his fraternity brother in the Upsilon Sigma Phi as a trial lawyer and has been assigned in some sensational cases. As the "eldest son of the eldest son of the clan", he is the 6th hereditary patriarch of the Dulay Mendoza Clan of Marikina Valley and the House of Lakan Dula of Tondo. He is still a young bachelor.