Antonio C. Delgado

Antonio C. Delgado of the Philippines served as Philippine ambassador to the Vatican, as well as chairman of the World Scout Committee of the World Organization of the Scout Movement from 1971 to 1973.

In 1971, Delgado was awarded the "Bronze Wolf", the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting, at the 22nd World Scout Conference. He was also awarded the Silver Buffalo in 1970. The Boy Scouts of the Philippines claims that Delgadoconceived the World Scout Emblem during his stint as the first Asian World Scout Committee chairman from 1971 to 1973, [http://scouts.org.ph/global/module.php?LM=news.detail&pid=22] however the design was introduced at the 8th World Scout Jamboree in 1955, based on a 1939 earlier design by J. S. Wilson.

In 1987, Ambassador Delgado commissioned the Vatican Mosaic Studio to prepare a mosaic image of Lorenzo Ruiz, the first Filipino saint, which was installed at the Altar of the Martyrdom of St. Peter in St. Peter's Basilica.

References

*Dr. László Nagy, "250 Million Scouts", The World Scout Foundation and Dartnell Publishers, 1985, complete list through 1981, from which the French Scoutopedia article is sourced

External links

* [http://fr.scoutwiki.org/Liste_des_personnes_distingu%C3%A9es_du_loup_de_bronze French Scoutopedia article]
*http://library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/fl/f148%7D1.htm
*http://www.ops.gov.ph/europevisit07/backgrounder.htm