The story dates
back to the distant past. It was the glorious and chivalrous time of the
Spanish senores and the Moros. Now, the moros plundering the neighboring
islands, abducting the women and the children, who, were told, were being
ground and minted into money and gold by the Moros. These plundering grew very
intense in some nearby islands and there were terrible rumors that these moros
were coming to Dumaguete. It was not called”dumaguete” then. The people were
concerned and they prayed hard for protection. The families gathered at night
to pray to the nuestra senora and to santa catalina to deliver them from this
danger. The people had the special devotion to santa catalina and santa plight,
she was swift I giving them her protection.
Santa catalina was known to have a stalwart and a
military woman. Every time the moros intended invading the island she would
send a swarm of of bees to cover the whole place, so that it would be seen from
a far as a big cloud, swallowing the island into the bosom of the horizon; so
the moros could not find the island.
Dumaguete was name after Daguit meaning kidnap during
Spanish era Moros will siege Dumaguete and kidnap girls from here that is why
the City was called Daguit.
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