Gaspar Aquino de Belen is a Filipina poet and translator of the 17th century, author in particular of Pasyon, a famous poetic of passion, died narration and resurrection of Christ. The pasyon (pasión is a narrative of the Passion Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ woven into a poem with stanzas of five lines and each line having eight
Filipino natives, generally were not taught Spanish, but the bilingual individuals, notably poet-translator Gaspar Aquino de Belen, produced devotional poetry written in the Roman script in the Tagalog language. Tagalog is one of the major languages used in the Philippines. Pasyon, begun by Aquino de Belen, is a narrative of the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, which has circulated in many versions. The pasyon (pasión is a narrative of the Passion Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ woven into a poem with stanzas of five lines and each line having eight Jesus of Nazareth (7–2 BC / BCE —26–36 AD / CE)