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Letizia Roxas Constantino’s family marks her 105th birth anniversary with ‘Letizia: A Life in Letters’ exhibit

By Cecille Baltazar | The Philippine Star | April 13, 2025

“In my diary book of quotes, I wrote on the Nov. 17 page: ‘The great use of a life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.’” Letizia Roxas Constantino—passionate nationalist, inspiring teacher, relentless chronicler, and loving wife, mother, and grandmother—wrote those words on a sheet of Stradmore stationery not knowing that she was attesting to her own life.

That letter is just one of many on display for Letizia: A Life in Letters, an immersive exhibit of Letizia’s remarkable life, as told through her letters, photos, diary entries, recipes, mementoes, to-do lists, and audio recordings of her piano playing. Taking it all in, one thought persists: Surely these were accomplished by multiple people. No one person can do all that in just one lifetime.

Except Letizia did do all that, and more.

To commemorate the 105th anniversary of her [READ]

RENATO2025-09-04T14:50:58+08:00April 12, 2025|

The ‘Letizia: A Life in Letters’ exhibit introduces historian Letizia Roxas-Constantino through her personal letters and other curio

All Photos by Josiah Antonio

By JOSIAH ANTONIO | Published by GMA News Online | April 10, 2025

An exhibit of letters penned by writer and historian Letizia Roxas-Constantino, wife of historian Renato Constantino, opened on Wednesday at the Linangan Gallery on Panay Avenue in Quezon City.

“Letizia: A Life in Letters” has on display Intimate letters spanning eight decades, anecdotes of her life, as well as notes of wisdom from the artist that doesn’t just introduce, but hopes to reflect her grace, intellect, heart and substance as a writer, Constantino Foundation managing director Red Constantino, says.

“It is an exhibit that honors the nationalist, the historian, the writer, the generational Filipina that she was. No burloloy, only consition, only substance and something that Letizia embodies, elegance,” he said.

“The exhibit represents a sliver of a fingernail of letters, manuscripts, and other artifacts that she [READ]

RENATO2025-09-04T14:51:18+08:00April 11, 2025|

RC Constantino

In remembrance of nationalist, activist, much loved husband, father, and friend, RC Constantino, who passed away a year ago on this day. He is badly missed. #RCrevisited

RENATO2025-04-09T17:29:12+08:00April 4, 2025|

Karina David

Today, March 19, would have been the 79th birthday of feminist, composer, and former head of the country’s Civil Service Commission Karina Constantino-David. She is sorely missed.

RENATO2025-04-09T17:28:14+08:00March 19, 2025|

Tagteam for Nationalism: Popular Book Store and the Constantino Foundation

If you are looking for books by Renato Constantino or Letizia Roxas Constantino, Popular Book Store is your main shop. Popular remains the main distributor of the Constantino Foundation, thanks to decades of friendship between the book store’s founder, Joaquin Po, and the historian Renato Constantino [...]

RENATO2025-04-10T13:38:53+08:00March 13, 2025|Tags: MainStories|

Renato Constantino

#RenatoConstantino wrote this in 1968. Is it still relevant? Today, March 10, is his 106th birth anniversary. #aPastRevisited #RememberBetter

RENATO2025-04-09T17:23:12+08:00March 10, 2025|

Renato Constantino Jr: The man who ‘apcet’ the world about East Timor

MUCH has been written about the courage, rock-steady principles and tireless activism of Renato Constantino Jr., “RC” to most, since he died on April 5 at the age of 79.He was, after all, present — nay, taking a key role though much of the time behind the scenes unless truly needed — in most of the game-changing campaigns of the last five decades.Think September 1991, when the Philippine Senate voted to end the US bases treaty. [...]

RENATO2025-06-09T17:58:41+08:00March 7, 2025|

PUP marks 120th founding year with climate, mobility, history ride

The Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) launched Sintang Lakbay today, a pioneering initiative integrating inclusive mobility, culture, and history. The move highlights the school’s resolve to demonstrate the relevance of its academic philosophy in the face of current climate-constrained realities. [...]

RENATO2025-03-29T20:20:52+08:00March 7, 2025|

What remains of Carlos Fressel?

What remains of Carlos Fressel? There are several answers to the question. Among them is a reminder to Filipinos about the value of our fascinating past and why history should not be treated as the domain of historians alone. At the base of an elegant pillar in the parish of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Sta. Mesa Manila, a curious churchgoer will find an interesting marking [...]

RENATO2025-03-31T15:50:09+08:00March 7, 2025|Tags: MainStories|

The Electrician and the Tram

AN Armenian invocation comes to mind, Djamangeen gar oo chagar. Once upon a time, there was and there wasn’t. It’s a fitting notion to chew on when you weigh the story of a large lot along F.R. Hidalgo in Quiapo district, framed on two sides by esteros that are today more sewage than canal, waterways that once witnessed the rise of the country’s first modern power station, La Electricista—The Electrician. [...]

RENATO2025-03-31T15:52:11+08:00March 7, 2025|Tags: MainStories|

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