Horacio de la Costa is the name is on a busy Makati Street and a building on the Ateneo campus in Q.C. I said a prayer for him ...

Horacio de la Costa is the name is on a busy Makati Street and a building on the Ateneo campus in Q.C. I said a prayer for him on his 107th birthday today as I opened to the flyleaf of one of the treasures in my library: a first edition copy of his book, "Jesuits in the Philippines" (Harvard University Press, 1961), inscribed to his friend Leon Ma. Guerrero:
"For Leonie, who will be kind to this Book, because of the golden hours we spent, a long time ago, planning all the books we would wr...