SOME PLACES OF WORSHIP
IN THE PHILIPPINES
Selected Places of Worship in Manila and Pangasinan: Where the physical communes with the spiritual in the solemnity of today’s (Good Friday’s) occasion in the Philippines---SS
St. John The Evangelist Church, Infanta, Pangasinan
St. Raymund de Penafort Church, Mangatarem, Pangasinan
St. Agustine Church, Intramuros, Manila
Baclaran Redemptorist Church, Paranaque City
Malate Church, Manila, with statue of Lapu-lapu in the foreground.
The gem of them all…Manila Cathedral, Aduana St., Intramuros, Manila, bathed in the 3PM afternoon sun as it appears from the sidewalk fronting Palacio del Gobernador building.
A BIG THANK YOU for SS, our temporary roving correspondent in Pangasinan.. Seeing the photos is like a vicarious pilgrimage reminding me of the religious heritage handed down by the Spaniards. Each town in Pangasinan have a church which is beautiful and historical by itself.
For example, the original church in Asingan built during the Spanish time, elders said was partly built with egg whites. True or false, this was a story that has been told and retold in my hometown. I wrote an article about this fact and it was published in the now defunct SUNDAY TIMES Magazine.
The church in Calasiao has also a statue of the SANTO BANKAY ( Holy Corpse ) which people say is GROWING in stature. Again it is hard to believe such stories. Call it superstition, call it anything but their originality has certain appeal to collector of folk stories ( like me ) and also to tourists who might happen to be in the neighbourhood.---#
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