from the Spanish word cánones
Kanones
Canon(s)
The word kanones is very rarely seen these days. Students come across it when they read biographies written over a century ago about a Philippine writer or patriot who went to a school of higher learning and “finished the canons,” which likely meant the established set of literature that learned men were expected to know about.
Basically, kanones referred to a college subject that featured books or lessons deemed of high quality for intellectual development.
Natapos ni Balagtas ang Kanones, Latin, Teolohiya at Pilosopiya noong 1812 sa Kolehiyo de San Jose.
Balagtas finished the Canons, Latin, Theology, and Philosophy in 1812 at St. Joseph’s College.
ecclesiastical or church law
KAHULUGAN SA TAGALOG
Kánonés: sa simbahang Katoliko Romano, mga batas ukol sa kapakanang eklesyastiko
