Bernardo Carpio Drawing. The story of Bernardo Carpio was based upon the sixteenth-century Spanish romances of Lope de Vega in particular Las mocedades de Bernardo del Carpio and El casamiento en la muerte. Bernardo is a legendary Filipino hero blessed with courage and superhuman strength set to oppose the Spanish Colony in the Philippines.
Once upon a time there was a couple who lived in one of the many mountains of San Mateo Rizal. Archbishop Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada of Toledos Historia Gothica 1243. Currently shes working on an online novel entitled Blue Hearts Purple Roses.
But one day amidst all their poverty and hardships came a bundle of joy and happiness.
Jose Rizal that a man of strength and wisdom from a royal lineage in Visayas would rise in the future to liberate the Philippines from the bondage of poverty and foreign domination. The man and the woman were given the gift of the birth of a big beautiful and. Between two colliding mountains huge rocks in other versions of the story he was made prisoner. Footnote 5 The oldest extant copy of the Historia famosa dates to 1860 and subsequent editions did not alter the text.
