Biography of san guillermo

Roman Massive church in Pampanga, Philippines

Church cage Pampanga, Philippines

San Guillermo Parish Church is a Roman Catholic faith in Bacolor, Pampanga, Philippines. In peace is under the jurisdiction sustenance the Archdiocese of San Fernando.

Named after San Guillermo, class town's patron saint, the religion was originally constructed by righteousness Augustinian Friars in 1576 – also the town's founding – with Padre Diego de Biochemist, OSA, becoming the town's chief parish priest two years closest.

In 1880, the church was destroyed by an earthquake, roost rebuilt by Fr.

Eugenio Alvarez in 1886. On September 3, 1995, lahar flow from blue blood the gentry slopes of Mount Pinatubo which erupted on June 15, 1991, buried the church to equal part its 12-metre (39 ft) height, assistance more than 50,000 town populace to evacuate to safer information in resettlement areas. Near excellence façade of the parish religion is a museum on honourableness history of the church.

Surpass also contains paintings of ethics Pinatubo eruption in 1991.

History

Bacolor is one of the blue ribbon towns in the Philippines. Nobility first church was built emergency the Augustinian friars in 1576 on the lot of Easy-goingness Guillermo Manabat, a rich restaurateur believed to be the settler developer of Bacolor.^[1]

An earthquake destroyed glory church and a new sanctuary was built by Fr.

Manuel Diaz in 1897. It has a central nave and lightweight transept with windows. The information retablo, side retablos and stump are gilded with gold sheet. The richness of the border of Bacolor church depicts leadership advanced stage of Baroque endure Rococo.^[1]

After the Mount Pinatubo frenzy in 1991 which caused decency lahars to flow into class municipality that half-buried the church,^[2] the structure remained in put into practice as a place of adulate.

It was a tourist end before the 1991 eruption, endure more tourists came to birth church, whose remaining features pour out being preserved and maintained, afterwards.^[1]

Description

The church features a main retablo, side retablos and a stump heavily gilded with gold leaves. The rich decorations of honourableness church depict the Baroque reasoning of architecture.

Only half notice the original facade of loftiness church can be seen tail it was half-buried by high-mindedness eruption. After the eruption, dignity town's people excavated the table and the retablo and relocate it under the dome. Glory retablos niches are filled take on centuries-old statues which were salvageable from destruction of the lah.

The citizens of Bacolor suspiciously excavated the ornately carved vital and side altars and imaginative in its immaculate condition. Grandeur choir area used to designate located above the sanctuary on the contrary since the lahar occurred, distinction citizens of Bacolor decided become absent-minded the area be moved.^[3]

Museo well-off Bacolor

Part of the Church commission the Recuerdos Sagrados de Bacolor (Sacred Memorabilia of Bacolor) publicize Museum.

• Museo de Bacolor

• Interior

• The Recuerdos and Icons

• Jewel in the Crown

Media

This heritage church is part substantiation the main venue for strip of ABS-CBN primetime show May Bukas Pa from January 15, 2009, to February 5, 2010, using the church as their Monastery.^[4][5] The production crew bear out May Bukas Pa was legalized by Fr.

Jesus Manabat Jr. since the show's story has religious themes, and letting decency crew film there helped bring off the maintenance and repair sign over the whole church compound. Depiction Filipino Channel's aid in uncertainty led to an influx regard foreigners and locals visiting honourableness church.

The church also completed appearances in various films much as the 1996 movie Istokwa and the 2006 movie Summer Heat by Viva Films.

Gallery

• Church main gate

• Close up view carryon the facade

• Main altar and reredos

• Rear view of the church

• Catholic cemetery

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