Honoria acosta-sison biography of michael

At the very base of all her achievement, was Honoria the person. And at the core of her personality was a definite idea about what human being should be, making her life a moral commitment at the very outset. A basic concept to her was "purity".

In her childhood, she was told by her aunt that "purity is a treasure girls must possess." Like a glass, it could never be put together again when broken.

Honoria acosta-sison biography of michael

"Being only a small girl of five or six years," she confides in her short autobiographical sketch, "I was not conscious of the full implication of the instruction but the forcefulness of the simile never left me through the years."

This was the reason for the simplicity of her ways.

Relating her mother’s fondness for beautiful dresses, she took care to add that it was "a trait something I had not inherited." And it was truth. She was not very much concerned with the outer trappings of feminity, although a portrait of her in and a family picture of showed her to be quite femmine, demurely