Jose V. Romero
Samar and Leyte had a colorful past. Who can forget the fact that their early inhabitants were the first to greet the first missionaries who planted the cross of Christ and celebrated the first mass in the country on Easter Sunday March 31 in the year 1521? The date marked the official campaign for the Christianization of the archipelago, which has become the only Catholic country in this part of the world and through her missionary undertakings has converted millions in the continent.