Gilbert Luis Centina III

Gilbert Luis Centina III

Gilbert Luis Centina III is a poet and a member of the religious Order of St. Augustine. He is one of the leading voices in contemporary Catholic poetry following in the footsteps of another Augustinian, the sixteenth-century poet Fray Luis Ponce de León that literary critics have crowned as the Prince of Spanish Lyric Poetry.

Centina belongs to the Augustinian Province of the Most Holy Name of Jesus of the Philippines and is under the circumscription of Madrid, seat of his province's government. He is currently assigned at the Augustinian-run parish of Holy Rosary in New York City.

He is the author of two books of poetry "Our Hidden Galaxette" and "Glass of Liquid Truths". His work has been anthologized in high school and college textbooks in the Philippines. Besides English, he also writes in Spanish and in two Philippine languages, Hiligaynon and Tagalog.

From the Asian Catholic Publishers and the Archdiocese of Manila, he received the Catholic Authors Award in 1996. He entered the Augustinian Convent in Intramuros, Manila and obtained his degrees from the University of Santo Tomas (BA classical, PhB, STB, and STL, all "cum laude") and from the University of the Philippines (Master of Arts in comparative literature). He completed required units for his PhD in comparative literature from a state university in central Philippines but did not submit a thesis to be conferred the degree. Upon his ordination to the priesthood, he briefly served as a missionary in Peru.

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* [http://hometown.aol.com/glciii/myhomepage/index.html Homepage of Gilbert Luis Centina III]
* [http://www.geocities.com/icasocot/authors_c.html Gilbert Luis Centina III]
* [http://www.lgpolar.com/index/php/read.php?a=10&b=10&kp=documento&kh=1997 Spanish writings]
* [http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=3ev35411ueg4u?tname=intramuros-1&curtab=2222_1&hl=san&hl=agustin&hl=church&sbid=lc01b Intramuros]
* [http://www.ust.edu.ph/ University of Santo Tomas]
* [http://www.osanet.org/homeint.htm Order of St. Augustine]
* [http://www.shearsman.com/pages/gallery/smith/6luisdeleon_notes.html Fray Luis de Leon]
* [http://www.midwestaugustinians.org/missionframe.msie.html Augustinian mission in Peru]
* [http://www.rcam.org/ Archdiocese of Manila]


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