Rebulto ni felix manalo biography

Short history of Felix Manalo

The founder of the Iglesia Ni Cristo organization was Felix Manalo.  Born On May 10, 1886 to a Catholic family, near Manila in the Philippines.

His name Felix (happy) was chosen from the roster of saints from that month. He was baptized a Catholic, his mother a devout Roman Catholic who had Felix attend Catechism class where he learned the fundamentals of the Roman Catholic faith.

When he became a teenager he went on a spiritual quest through five known denominations.

Rebulto ni felix manalo biography

He became a follower of the ''Colorum'' spiriting sect in the Philippines which was secretive and had pilgrimages to a sacred mountain. He left the Church as a teenager. In 1904 after witnessing a debate between a Roman catholic priest and a Protestant minister on the use of images, he joined the Methodist Episcopalian Church, attended their Seminary and became a pastor.

Iglesia puts it this way "He found that the arguments of the Protestant minister' seemed nearer to