Gaspar Aquino de Belén, a native of Rosario, Batangas, was a Filipino poet and translator of the 17th century, known for authoring a 1704 rendition of the ''

Pasyon The ''Pasyón'' () is a Philippine epic narrative of the life of Jesus Christ, focused on his Passion, Death, and Resurrection. In stanzas of five lines of eight syllables each, the standard elements of epic poetry are interwoven with a colourfu ...

'': a famous work of

Christian poetry Christian poetry is any poetry that contains Christian teachings, themes, or references. The influence of Christianity on poetry has been great in any area that Christianity has taken hold. Christian poems often directly reference the Bible, whil ...

about the

passion Passion, the Passion or the Passions may refer to: Emotion * Passion (emotion), a very strong feeling about a person or thing * Passions (philosophy), emotional states as used in philosophical discussions * Stoic passions, various forms of emotio ...

, death and

resurrection of Jesus The resurrection of Jesus () is Christianity, Christian belief that God in Christianity, God Resurrection, raised Jesus in Christianity, Jesus from the dead on the third day after Crucifixion of Jesus, his crucifixion, starting—or Preexis ...

, which has circulated in many versions. Generally Filipino natives were not taught the

Spanish language Spanish () or Castilian () is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. Today, it is a world language, gl ...

but the bilingual individuals, notably poet-translator Aquino de Belén, produced devotional poetry written in

Latin script The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia. The Gree ...

in the

Tagalog language Tagalog ( ,According to the ''OED'' anMerriam-Webster Online Dictionary ; ''Baybayin'': ) is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by the ethnic Tagalog people, who make up a quarter of the population of the Philippines, and as ...

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* *https://web.archive.org/web/20080302162119/http://www.ncca.gov.ph/about_cultarts/comarticles.php?artcl_Id=139 Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown 17th-century translators 18th-century Filipino poets Filipino translators People from the Spanish colonial Philippines Catholic poets Early modern Christian devotional writers {{asia-translator-stub People from Rosario, Batangas Writers from Batangas