"Himno del Colegio de Letran" - Hymn of the Colegio de San Juan de Letran

Shout-out to Luis Gabriel S. Paguio who suggested this video 3 months ago in the comments section! :) --------------- "The Colegio de San Juan de Letran Hymn is the rarest of its kind in the Philippines, for it is still being sung in the old language of instruction of the country for centuries, Spanish. (Colegio de Santa Rosa Cavite is another school in the country with hymn sung in Spanish. Previously, Centro Escolar University’s hymn was also in Spanish.) The hymn reflects the history of the HEI from the point of view of the time it was written and composed–which was after World War II–by renowned music professor Julio Esteban Anguita, a Spaniard born and raised in the Philippines. The hymn takes pride of Letran’s alumni who conceived, built and led the Filipino nation (“Tantos hombres ilustres formar,” or ‘To mould so many illustrious men’). The new music video of the hymn encapsulates the Letran community’s excitement for its 400 years in 2020. Letran’s website has a student-friendly page where it passes on to the new generations of Letran students the school’s musical heritage." -cited from "13 Beautiful Philippine University Hymns", article by Filipino historian Ian Alfonso from his blog "Yani's World" (https://www.google.com/amp/s/alfonsoi...) The Colegio de San Juan de Letran, also referred to by its acronym CSJL, is a private Roman Catholic Dominican institution of basic and higher learning owned and run by the friars of the Order of Preachers ( Dominicans) of the Philippine Dominican Provincee in Intramuros, Manila. Founded in 1620, Colegio de San Juan de Letran has the distinction of being the oldest college in the Philippines and the oldest secondary institution in Asia. The school has produced Philippine presidents, revolutionary heroes, poets, legislators, members of the clergy, jurists, and it is also one of the only Philippine schools that has produced several Catholic saints who lived and studied on its campus. The school's patron saint is St. John the Baptist. The campus contains two statues, representing the two foremost alumni in the fields of secular and religious service: former Philippine President Manuel L. Quezon and Vietnamese Saint Vicente Liem de la Paz. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleg...) --------------- SOURCES Audio recording: "Hymno del Colegio de Letran (Alma Mater Hymn". Retrieved from https://www.letran.edu.ph/Colegio/Hymns Images: “Seal of Colegio de San Juan de Letran". Retrieved from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:... *flag of the Colegio de San Juan de Letran recreated through Canva by yours truly "Colegio de San Juan de Letran". [photo by John T. Pilot ftom flickr.com]. Retrieved from https://www.vigattintourism.com/asset... "Colegio San Juan de Letran, Manila (ca. 1880)". Retrieved from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:... "Colegio de San Juan de Letran, St. John the Baptist Building". Retrieved from https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/... --------------- Subscribe to my Youtube channel:    / @cancionesdefilipinas1898   Join my Discord server:   / discord   Follow my Instagram account:   / canciones_de_filipinas