FERNANDO BUYSER

                Makugihong magsusulat sa pinulongang bisaya.  Kaha ang labing makugihon ug mabungahon sa ngatanan.  Akasulat daghan ug nagkalainlaing mga basahon sa sugilanon, balak, dula, leyeuda ug ubp.  Nakadungandungan ni Vicente Sotto, Vicete Ranudo, Uldarico Alviola, Escolastico Morre, Jua Villagonzalo ug Tomas Baguio sa pagsulat sa atog pinulongan, gikan sa unang mga tuig sa ANG SUGA.  Ang kadasig ni Obispo Buyser sa pagsulat, nagapadayong mainiton hangtud karon.  Hapit sa tanang isip sa BISAYA ug PILIPINHON mabasa nato ang mga balak, sugilanon kun leyeuda ni Mons. Buyser, nga tiniman-an ang uban sa iyang ngalan ug ang uban sa takubang Floripinas.

                Kung ang mga magsusulat nato nagbaton pa sa kadasig ug kamakanunayon ni Mons. Buyser sa pagsulat, ang atong katitikan dato na unta uyamut ug ikapagarbo ta sa kalibutan.

                Ang mga basahon nga hangtud karon nangapatik ni Obispo Buyser mao kining mosunod: KASAKIT UG KALIPAY, KASINGKASING SA MAGBABALAK, MGA AWIT SA KABUKIRAN, HARING GANGIS UG HARING LEON, RITUAL SA SIMBAHANG PILIPINHON, ANG KALASAG, ANG KALIPAY, GUMARANG AGLIPAYANO, UNSA BAY INFIERNO?, ANG BANWAG, LUCIA, ANG LAA SA BUGAY, ANG SINAKIT SA AWTO, BAYLI OFICIAL, SI KRISTO GIKAWAT, DUNGOG UG KAMATAYON USA KA GABIING PILIPINHON, MGA DAMGO SA USA KA PARI, MGA SUGILANONG PILIPINHON, ANG PANIMALOS SA USA KA ASWANG, ANG BULAWAN UG ANG BRILLANTE, MGA SUGILANONG KARAAN, ANG GUGMA UG KALOOY, ANG KAHAYAG, ANHELIKA, MATAHUM HANDUMANAN SA KANDIHAY UBP. UBP.

(Tipik sa sinulat ni Hal. Nicolas Rafols nga nahamantala sa mantalaang PILIPINHON sa Manila sa Nob. 1939, Panid 37, ubus sa uluhan nga “Ang Unang Katloan Ka Mga Magsusulat Sa Pinulongang Bisaya”)

SOURCE:

Buyser, Fernando Aquino (1941). Fernando Buyser. BALANGAW: Pungpong Sa Mga Balak ni FLORIPINAS (pp. 265-266). Siyudad sa Sugbu.

Fernando Buyser

Fernando Buyser, also known as Floripinas, was born in Kalunangan, Leyte on the 30th of May, 1879. 

He died in Mainit, Surigao on the 16th of November, 1946. He was known as a poet, fictionist and playwright. He worked as an elementary school teacher in San Isidro, Leyte, then as an interisland ship officer. In 1905 he was ordained as an Aglipayan priest and consequently served as parish priest in Cebu City. He went on to become bishop of Cebu, Bohol, Leyte, Samar, Masbate, and Surigao, and was president of the Venerable Supreme Council of Bishops of the Philippine Independent Church.

Buyser published his first poem in Ang Suga in 1906. He was primarily a poet and produced six books of poetry, among them, Barasahon sa mgaBalak (Readings of Poems), 1936; Kasingkasing sa Magbabalak (Heart of a Poet), 1938; Kasakit ug Kalipay (Woes and Bliss), 1940; and Balangaw (Rainbow), 1941. His poetry is versatile, moral, and often mystical.
 
All in all, he authored more than 20 books and booklets in different genres. These include plays Si Christo Gikawat (Christ has been stolen) and Lucia, 1912 and Baile Oficial (Official Dance), 1913; the novellete Panimolus sa Isa Ka Aswang (Exploits of a Vampire), 1923; the short stories Mga Damgo sa Usa Ka Pari (Dreams of a Priest), 1913 and Dungog sa Kamatayon (Honor of Death), 1926.
 
Buyser was one of the pioneers in compiling and studying Visayan folklore, publishing Awit sa Kabukiran (Song of the Fields), 1912, Mga Sugilanong Karaan (Old Stories), 1913 and other folkloric texts. He owned a publishing house, wrote Aglipayan tracts and edited the Aglipayan periodicals Yutang Natawhan, founded in 1904, and Ang Salampati, 1920-1924.

Source: CebuanoStudiesCenter.com

SOURCE:

Ferando Buyser. y101fm.com.  Retrieved from http://www.y101fm.com/index.php/features/lifestyle/featured-artist/1728-fernando-buyser

FERNANDO BUYSER

Fernando Buyser, also known as Floripinas, was born in Kalunangan, Leyte on the 30th of May, 1879. He died in Mainit, Surigao on the 16th of November, 1946. He was known as a poet, fictionist and playwright. He worked as an elementary school teacher in San Isidro, Leyte, then as an interisland ship officer. In 1905 he was ordained as an Aglipayan priest and consequently served as parish priest in Cebu City. He went on to become bishop of Cebu, Bohol, Leyte, Samar, Masbate, and Surigao, and was president of the Venerable Supreme Council of Bishops of the Philippine Independent Church.

Buyser published his first poem in Ang Suga in 1906. He was primarily a poet and produced six books of poetry, among them, Barasahon sa mgaBalak (Readings of Poems), 1936; Kasingkasing sa Magbabalak (Heart of a Poet), 1938; Kasakit ug Kalipay (Woes and Bliss), 1940; and Balangaw (Rainbow), 1941. His poetry is versatile, moral, and often mystical.

All in all, he authored more than 20 books and booklets in different genres. These include plays Si Christo Gikawat (Christ has been stolen) and Lucia, 1912 and Baile Oficial (Official Dance), 1913; the novellete Panimolus sa Isa Ka Aswang (Exploits of a Vampire), 1923; the short stories Mga Damgo sa Usa Ka Pari (Dreams of a Priest), 1913 and Dungog sa Kamatayon (Honor of Death), 1926.


Buyser was one of the pioneers in compiling and studying Visayan folklore, publishing Awit sa Kabukiran (Song of the Fields), 1912, Mga Sugilanong Karaan (Old Stories), 1913 and other folkloric texts. He owned a publishing house, wrote Aglipayan tracts and edited the Aglipayan periodicals Yutang Natawhan, founded in 1904, and Ang Salampati, 1920-1924.

SOURCE:

Cebuano Studies Center. Fernando Buyser. Retrieved from http://cebuanostudiescenter.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=5&Itemid=1

BUYSER: Man of God, Man of Letters

Although he wrote fiction, drama and religious texts, it was poetry that he was best. In his lifetime, he was able to publish six volumes of poetry, one of which he entitled Kasakit ug Kalipay to commemorate a nephew’s death.

He was the largest single contributor in the history of the pre-war Visayan-language weekly, Bag-ong Kusog, having contributed more than 70 poems in just six years. His poems also dominated the literary pages of Bisaya magazine in its early years.

Unlike most poets of his day, Buyser did not limit his subjects to love and romance. Buyser along with Gardeopatra Quijano and other writers associated with him wrote on topics as diverse as dreams and objects of everyday life. (In his collection, Ang Kasingkasing sa Magbabalak one of the poems was entitled Handumanan sa Akong Iring.) More importantly, Buyser also expressed in poetry a nation’s desire for freedom and the working class’s historic mission in leading the struggle for that freedom.

Wanting to make Rizal’s Mi Ultimo Adios available to Visayans, Buyser translated the poem into Cebuano.

Not content with given poetic forms, Bishop Buyser experimented with the sonnet, creating as a result, a form something like the sonnet yet something different. He calls it Siniloy, a Cebuano version of a sonnet. Many Cebuano writers who followed him, making it Buyser’s own contribution to the development of Cebuano poetry, used the form.

Fernando Buyser was born on May 30,1879 in Kanlungan, Merida, Leyte. He served as secretary of several patriotic Filipino military leaders in both the 1896 Revolution and the subsequent Philippine-American War. After the war, he became a ship official of an inter-island vessel called San Rafael II.

Upon the prodding of Msgr. Jose Evangelista, Aglipayan bishop in Manila, Buyser joined the seminary of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente and was ordained a priest in 1905. He was assigned in Leyte, Samar, and Surigao before being transferred to the Cebu diocese wherein he later became bishop in 1930.

He was one of Gregorio Aglipay’s foremost ally in the religious reform movement and even later became president of the Venerable Consejo Supremo de Obispos de la Iglesia Filipina Independiente. He also edited Aglipayan publications like Yutang Natawhan and Salampati.

Buyser died at the age of 68 in 1946.

Sun*Star Weekend

SOURCE:

Sun Star (n.d.). BUYSER: Man of God, Man of Letters. Retrieved from http://cebuanohalloffame.com/HOF-Inspiration/Fernando%20Buyser.htm

Fernando Buyser (Cebuano Hero)

Fernando Buyser was born on May 30, 1879 in Merida, Leyte. Fernando was a secretary of patriotic leaders in both the Revolution against Spain and the Filipino-American War. Fernando Buyser later worked as a ship official then as a priest of the Philippine Independent Church in 1905, and, in 1930, elevated to the position of bishop in Cebu.

Buyser was the most prolific author of books in Sugbuanong Binisaya. His output included poems, stories, songs, speeches and plays, which explored varied subjects such as romance, dreams, love of country, everyday things and the plight of the working class. Not satisfied with traditional poetic forms, he experimented with oriental and western styles.

Consequently, he was able to come up with a form akin to the first sonnet which became known as the “sonanoy.”

Sources: got it from a recent "Mga Bayani sa Sugbu" Exhibit from the CASA GORORDO MUSEUM, CEBU.

SOURCE:

Go, Vernon (2011, September 15). Fernando Buyser (Cebuano Hero). Blogger.com. Retrieved from http://www.vernongo.com/2011/09/fernando-buyser-cebuano-hero.html