Pedro Bukaneg - Apostle of the Ilocanos, a Philippine Moses

Few know much about Pedro Bukaneg, who he was or what he did. Yet in his day and generation his name was carried as far as Madrid and Rome. The incidents of his life parallel those of Moses to a certain extent; even if he did not write the "Tables of the Law", his labors to convert his countrymen to a better creed, resemble those of the Hebrew lawgiver. An Ilocano by birth and widely credited as the author of the Ilocano epic "Biag ni Lam-ang", his story dates back to about twenty years after Legaspi's conquest, ancient enough, historically speaking.