Catholic News Service: TACLOBAN, Philippines (CNS) — Mention the name of Maria Rosevilla Margate and many of the residents of the community known as Barangay 54A nod approvingly. They know exactly where to find her.
People tell stories of her kindness and friendship. Maria and her husband, Emmanuel, have lived in the community just a block from Redemptorist-run Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church since 1983. For years, they say, Maria Margate has helped her neighbors in need.
Just like Nov. 8, the day Typhoon Haiyan made a shambles of much of the central Philippines.
Maria Margate’s effort to shelter dozens of neighbors in her family’s concrete-walled home at the peak of the storm is well-known in the barangay. For that, people are grateful. Read more here.
