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Donato Guimbaolibot (December 5, 1866 - September 9, 1949) was a Catholic priest from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Borongan and the vicar general of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Calbayog. He became known for his efforts in building up Guiuan, Eastern Samar. He is also called as ''The Saintly Priest of Balangiga'' and was involved with the Balangiga Massacre controversies. In 1995, the Parish Church of Guiuan formally launched a beatification movement for Msgr. Donato Guimbaolibot to the Vatican Council. Msgr. Guimbaolibot is now revered to as Servant of God in many parts of the Samar and Leyte Regions. ==Biography== Guimbaolibot was born in Guiuan on Dec. 5, 1866, the second child of Tomas Guimbaolibot and Narcisa Bago. He had three sisters: Felipa, the eldest, Faustina and Maria. Local accounts had it that the Guimbaolibot children were raised in a simple but religious life at home. Padre Atoy, as Guimbaolibot was known, studied for the priesthood at the San Carlos Seminary in Cebu, where he was ordained priest at the age of 28 in 1894. He taught at the seminary before his first parish assignment in Tanauan (November 1898 to May 1899). At that time, the islands of Leyte and Samar were under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Cebu. Balangiga was his second parish assignment. His assignment to Guiuan would be his last. He served his hometown for nearly half a century until his death in 1949. There, he founded a parochial school for children, built a hospital, a high school and a new convent, and saw to the repair of the centuries-old parish church in the 1930s. He was elevated to the title of monsignor around the late 1930s, during which he also assumed the position of vicar general of the Diocese of Calbayog. Guimbaolibot had never been at ease with the Americans since his release from prison. At the end of 1944, when the American forces established a naval base in Guiuan, he was heard saying: "Take note, the American presence here is not a blessing; rather, it is a disgrace." Guimbaolibot suffered a stroke and became bedridden in July 1949. For a month, he hovered between life and death. He showed some improvement after that, but he never fully recovered. He died on Sept. 9, 1949 at the age of 83. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Donato Guimbaolibot」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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