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By Joy Festin, Special to The Manila Times
The Manila Times: How old are you and when did
you begin healing people?
Eustaquio Agbay: I am currently 80-year-old. I began as a healer 40
years ago.
TMT: How did you acquire your healing abilities?
EA: When I was a young man, I met a Mangyan in Mindoro who passed on
to me secret words that supposedly have healing powers. Then, a good
friend of mine in Mabini, Batangas, gave me a booklet on healing
written in Latin. I also came from a family of healers. I am a
native Batangueño.
TMT: How do you heal sick people?
EA: I simply whisper Latin prayers on them.
TMT: Do you call on a particular deity during
these healing sessions?
EA: No, I pray to the Almighty God alone. He’s the only one who
can heal people of their diseases.
TMT: Let’s say I want to become a healer. How
can I develop healing abilities?
EA: You should ask a practicing healer to give you healing ability
on a Good Friday.
TMT: Why on a Good Friday?
EA: That’s the way it is among us healers.
TMT: Any special requirement
for a person to become a healer?
EA: His desire to heal must be innate.
TMT: Do you accept
payment from your patients?
EA: No. The only thing that matters to me is that the patient gets
healed.
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