Ana, Manila to begin preaching about the Church of Christ (Iglesia ni Cristo). Felix Manalo left his wife, Honorata, for Punta, Sta.
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This was the mission which he carried out through thick and thin until he died on April 12, 1963, full of years and fruitful achievements. Stimulated by Apostle James’ admonition in his epistle (James 4:17) that “… to him that knoweth to do good and doeth it not, to him it is sin,” Bro. He gained the insight that religion or man’s ways back to God must be fully in accordance with the will of God contained in the bible, and that he was being sent to preach and the true religion so that God may bring near his righteousness to men in these last days. And that which was vague and obscure to him became crystal clear. He closeted himself in his room, and, to the utter apprehension of his wife, did not emerge until two days and three nights later, within which period he painstakingly assayed the different tenets of the teachings of the bible. Manalo resolved to undertake a thorough examination of the doctrines of the different religions. He found out that wrong interpretations of the bible caused both the atheist’s disbelief and the diversity of the doctrines of different religions.
He began to associate himself with atheist and free-thinkers obviously to examine their conviction which he found false and irrational, too. He totally lost faith in the established religions. Although he was frequently visited by his former colleagues in the Adventist Church who tried to bring him back to the fold, Bro. Then he transferred his business and domicile to Pasay City and also opened a barber shop. He abandoned the Adventist Church and returned to his hat shop.ĭissatisfied with the doctrines and practices of the then existing religions, Bro. But then, after pondering on the Adventist’s persistent observance of Sabbath, Bro. Felix Manalo as a minister and Sister Honorata, a deaconess. The couple were both active in the Church’s activities, Bro. His second wife was Honorata de Guzman of Sta. In 1911, he joined the Seventh day Adventists wherein he also became a pastor. He married Tomasa Sereneo of Paco, Manila who died soon after giving birth to their son, Gerardo. Manalo’s attention and, in 1910, he joined the missionaries and later became an evangelist. The manner of baptizing by immersion by the Christian Mission attracted Bro. In 1907, he joined the Presbyterian Church wherein he became a pastor after attending the Union Theological Seminary. Manalo to join one Protestant sect after another-scrutinizing every doctrine and comparing them with the biblical percepts. Thus began a seemingly endless search for the true religion-a search that led Bro. That year, he joined the Methodist Episcopal Church and attended classes given by that sect in the Methodist Theological Seminary wherein he eventually became an evangelist. Not knowing that his life had a singular pattern designed by God for him to follow, as were the lives of God’s messengers before him, namely Moses and Apostle Paul, he drifted another from one religion to another. The Protestant pastor evidently prevailed and gained Bro. Felix Manalo began to entertain his first doubt in the Catholic teachings when, sometime in 1904, he witnessed a public debate between a Catholic priest and a Protestant pastor in Paranaque, Rizal. By then, the Spanish conquistadores had already yielded the Islands to the Americans and the Roman Catholic Church was then beginning to be challenged by different Protestant sects which the Americans brought with them.īro. He worked as herd boy, was later apprenticed to his uncle in the latter’s photography studio and sometime in 1904, opened a hat shop in Paranaque, Rizal.
Thus for sentimental reasons and for expressing his reverence, he adopted her name, Manalo.) He began acquiring his education from barrio school under the tutelage of a “maestrong Cario” (a teacher called Cario). He grieved over the death of his mother for whom he had a great affection. (It was sometime after his mother’s death that he decided on his mother’s name over his father’s name. He was raised in the catholic faith by his parents, Mariano Ysagun and Bonifacio Manalo. Manalo was born in Barrio Calzada, Taguig, in Rizal province, southern Luzon, in the Philippines on May 10, 1886-at a time when the country was yet in the clutches of Spanish colonialism and when Roman Catholicism was still considered the state religion.