The Nuestra Señora de Gracia Church, also known as Guadalupe Church is an authentic Renaissance-Baroque church considered as one of the most popular wedding churches in Metro Manila. The Augustinian missionaries established the church and an adjacent monastery in 1601 in the rocky, hilly terrain near the Pasig River banks.
Tag: Churches
Regina Cæli
San Agustin Museum together with the different Marian shrines and parishes in the Philippines have brought up a Marian exhibit called “Regina Caeli”. The exhibit showcased 30 of these pontifically crowned Marian images in the Philippines, aiming to show that the country is “Pueblo Amante de Maria” or a people in love with Mary.
Visita Iglesia 2019: Churches of Cavite
It was Holy Week again and it has been my duty to do Visita Iglesia every Maundy Thurday. So this time, I and my sister chose to visit the churches in Cavite. Cavite has been called Tierra de Maria Santisima (Land of the Most Holy Mary) in the last quarter of the 16th century because of the 10 venerated images of the Virgin Mary located in Cavite’s century-old churches.
Half Day in Sydney
I only visited 2 places in Sydney: St. Mary’s Cathedral and the Sydney Opera House. It was enough for my half-day tour and already covered 2 of the most famous tourist spots in Sydney.
Visita Iglesia 2018: Churches of Laguna
Laguna has a total of 86 Catholic churches with 26 of them being built between the 16th and 19th centuries. This Holy Week, we have visited few of these churches to do the “Station of the Cross”.
Malate Church By Manila Bay
Formally known as Our Lady of Remedies Parish Church, the Malate Catholic Church is in front of the Plaza Rajah Sulayman and the Manila Bay. The church is dedicated to the patroness of childbirth, with the Our Lady of Remedies statue brought from Spain in 1624 being the center of the main altar.
Paoay Church
Together with the San Agustin Church in Manila, Nuestra Señora de la Asuncion Church in Ilocos Sur and Sto. Tomas de Villanueva Parish Church in Iloilo, the Saint Augustine Church of Ilocos Norte was designated as UNESCO World Heritage Site under the collective group of Baroque Churches of the Philippines in 1993. The church more commonly known as Paoay Church was also declared as a National Cultural Treasure by the Philippine government in 1973.
St. Louis Cathedral Of New Orleans
Facing the Mississipi River, the triple steeples of the St. Louis Cathedral towering over the historic neighborhood the heart of the old city. Being established in 1720 as a small wooden chapel, it was actually used in the same year by the French engineer and cartographer Adrien de Pauger as the center of the street grid when he was appointed to draw the original map of the French Quarter. New Orleans was just established two years prior and the French Quarter was then known as the Vieux Carre.
Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico
On December 9th and 12th of 1531, the Virgin Mary appeared twice to an Aztec Christian convert, Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin. She has asked him to build a shrine dedicated to her on the site of her apparition, the Tepeyac Hill. When San Juan Diego approached the bishop on the second time to approve the construction of the church, the image of the Virgin Mary revealed to be imprinted in his tilma, a poncho-like cloak made of cactus fiber.
Nagasaki Trip: Hub of Catholicism In The Far East
Called then as the Ecclesiastical Nagasaki, the Jesuits aimed the city to be the main site of Catholicism in the Far East. However, the Shogunate became wary of colonialism and started to persecute the Christians. Nagasaki then became one of the historical sites of persecution for Catholics. The first time I went to Nagasaki, I took the opportunity to visit the important Catholic sites in the city.
Flash Note: Our Lady Of Akita Shrine
Eight kilometers North East from the Akita train station lies the Seitai Hoshikai. The place is a convent where the Our Lady of Akita is enshrined. The statue, said to be miraculous, was carved by a local sculptor named Saburo Wakasa in 1963. It was said to shed tears from 1975 to 1981 and has cured one deaf nun in 1982.
Amoj In Wanderland 