ARTA GROUP 2

CAHIGUS, JOHN LAMPIT

CANALES, ANGELO ARCAMO
CARREON, JOVENIAH MARCO
CAUSING, CHARLES ALLAN BASIYA
COLOBONG, FREDERICK ANDRES
COSTO, ROVIC ORIBE
DALES, ALEXIS POLICARPIO
USARES, ANTHONY REVELEJIA
Quipayo Church (1616)
Quipayo church (1616)

Parish church of Immaculate Concepcion of Quipayo Calabanga, Camarines Sur

Location

The Quipayo Church is a historical landmark located in Calabanga, Camarines Sur.

How to Get There
By Air
The province of Camarines Sur can be reached by plane within a flying time of 45
minutes. Flights are serviced by the Air Philippines (Pal Express), Zest Air, and Cebu
Pacific from Manila to Naga City Airport (the capital of the province). Riding a plane is
the quickest way to go to the province.
By Land
Aircon and non-aircon buses like PhilTranco, Isarog Bus Co., and Peñafrancia Bus Lines
ply daily through the Quirino Highway from Manila to Naga. --- From Naga, you can
take a jeepney bound for the town of Calabanga.
Going Around
Buses, vans and jeepneys are mostly used in traveling outside Naga City and going to
other towns of Camarines Sur. Taxis are available as well, but with double charge or
price depending on your negotiation with the driver.

HISTORY OF QUIPAYO CHURCH

T he Quipayo Church in the municipality of Calabanga in Camarines Sur

province is one of the oldest and the most beautiful brick churches in the Bicol region.
It was declared a National Historical Landmark and was founded in 1578 by the
Franciscan missionaries and was constructed in 1616, one of the earliest testaments to
the Catholic faith in Bicolandia. Gov. Migz Villafuerte through the Provincial Tourism
Office has a program of documenting such sites with historical significance in reference
to local tourism. Quipayo’’s original church was made of wood and nipa. In 1616, a
brick structure was built to replace the original church. Fray Francisco Gaviria
supervised the construction of this church. Is another ancient church founded by the
Franciscan missionaries who came to Camarines Sur in 1578. Originally, the present
parishes of Libmanan, Calabanga, Bombon, and Siruma were under its jurisdiction. The
patroness of Quipayo is Our Lady of the Immaculate Concepcion. The church was
constructed in 1616 and made of unique brick. Rare artifacts were excavated at this
church and they are now well-displayed in a museum behind the church altar. The
origin of the Municipality is unfolded from the legends and fables of the old generation.
In 1578 when the head Mission of Quipayo was established, Calabanga was only a
visita or barrio. At that time, the place has vast forests and swamps and an abundance
of wildlife such as monkeys, wild chickens and forest lizards. Some say Calabanga
derived its name from the Bicol word “Calabangan”, the plural term of “labang” or
“litag”, a kind of snare for catching wild animals. Another legend says that Calabanga
originated from the word “Calagbangan” meaning the wide, long and straight street
spanning from the church through the poblacion, east to west, called locally as
“Calabaan” or “Calacbangan”. Calabanga became a town with 400 tributes. On July 15,
1749, it was separated from Quipayo by virtue of the approval of Don Fray Joan de
Arechera, Bishop-elect of Nueva Segovia of the Commissary of the King, in the petition
signed and filed by 37 Calabangueños on April 28, 1749 for the town to be conveniently
administered. There were two visitas- Visita de Cagapad and Visita de Hinarijan and 12
barrios. The barrios were San Antonio, San Vicente, Sta Catalina, Nuestra Señora de
Salud, San Lucas, San Miguel, Sta. Isabel, Nuestra Señora del Carmen, San Roque, San
Pablo, San Jose (now Balongay) and Belen.

SIGNIFICANT HAPPENED IN QUIPAYO CHURCH

 C alabanga might be a place where you have to be home by 9 PM if you don’t
want to be caught in the crossfire of two drunkards wielding their balisongs twenty
years ago, but right now it is as progressive as a small progressive town could be.
People would then recall that one time they joined the annual alay-lakad (which
happens every Holy Week during the month of March where people would walk all the
way from Naga towards Calabanga, to Hinulid, specifically, where they would kiss the
foot of the wooden Jesus lying in his glass coffin) — and that’s when I realized why
most of them think Calabanga is situated miles away: they go to our place on foot.

UPDATES IN QUIPAYO CHURCH

 F rom 1902 to present, Quipayo has become a parish village of Calabnga
town. From the original nipa and wood the current chalk church was built under the
reign of Prayle Francisco Gaviria in 1616. However, the front of the church was erupted
in 1949 due to the heavy rains. The patron of the parish is the virgin of imaculada
concept. In 1659 San Roque became his second patron. (Camarines sur). Today,
residents still refer to the villages (barangays) surrounding the ladrillo church as
Quipayo. Our Lady of La Porteria has been elevated into a vicariate with five parishes
under its wing, including that of the Immaculate Conception which only retained sixteen
villages (barangays) up until October, 2009, with an approximate population of
seventeen thousand. The parish in Libmanan has progressed faster, it is now the seat
of the Diocese of Libmanan. On June 11, 1978 the Philippine national historical
commission by virtue of presidential decree 1505 declared the baroque-inspired
Quipayo church as a national historical landmark. Todate, it is recognized as one of the
oldest in the Bicol region. Today, Calabanga is one of the Municipalities of the Province
of Camarines Sur. With its rich fishing grounds and vast agricultural area, it is a major
supplier of fish and other marine products and prime agricultural products in the
province as well as in Metro Manila.

Majayjay Church (1649)

Majayjay church (1649)
Parish Church of San Gregorio Magno of Majayjay Majayjay, Laguna
Location
Majayjay, Laguna
Getting There
From Manila:
Take a bus bound to Sta. Cruz, Laguna at Buendia / Gil Puyat bus terminal.
From Sta Cruz take a jeepney ride to Majayjay Laguna. Majayjay is approximately 3-4
hours drive from Manila.
From San Pablo City:
It’s possible to take public transportation from San Pablo to Liliw, past Nagcarlan. Liliw
and Majayjay are right next to one another.
 HISTORY OF MAJAYJAY CHURCH

T he first Church of St. Gregory the Great in Majayjay was built in 1573 out of
nipa and bamboo. When it burned down three years later, it was reconstructed, then
burned again in 1606. After that it was rebuilt out of stone, but still suffered from fires
in 1616, 1660, and 1711. Between 1711 and 1734, the current version of the church
was constructed by Father Jose de Puertollano as a labor of love. Repairs since then
were conducted during the mid-19th century and the roof was replaced entirely with
galvanized iron in 1892. Majayjay served as the site of
early Catholicism in Laguna. The Augustinians first came in 1568. Along with five
Augustinian priests and Juan de Salcedo, nephew of Miguel López de Legazpi, they
started to evangelize the sceptical townsmen led by Gat Yantok. In 1571,
the Franciscans established a mission town with Don Gaspar Osorio, Agustín Osorio,
Juan Osorio, Juan de Mendoza, Ventura Mag-olop, Aman Lingasan and Martín Siasip.
The first church was constructed by locals in 1575 near the May-it river and was made
of nipa and bamboo and was later burned in 1576. In 1578, Franciscans Fathers Juan
de Plasencia and Diego Oropesa started to evangelize the town. A church, still
of nipa and bamboo, was built that same year under the patronage of Saint Gregory the
Great. Due to the lack of religious men, the first parish priest of Majajay, Father Antonio
Nombela was only assigned in 1594. Under his pastorship, a long robe worn by wives to
the church, called lambón was first used in the Philippines. In 1599, the Superior
Gobierno authorized the construction of a stone church. While awaiting its construction,
the makeshift church was burned in 1606. Majayjay also served as infirmary for the old
religious men until 1606 before it was transferred to Lumban. Construction of the stone
church began in 1616 and was completed in 1649 with the help of Maestro de Campo
Don Buenaventura de Mendoza. The church was again partially burned in 1660.
[7]
 Rehabilitation started in 1711 and finished in 1730 by 14,000 people on forced
labor and a rehabilitation cost of $26,000 by Father Jose de Puertollano. Instead of
rebuilding the church, Father Puertollano decided to sandwich the ruins between two
layers of brick resulting in an unusual wall thickness of 3 metres (9.8 ft). It took 19
years for the people of Majayjay to complete the church which was made of volcanic
tuff with red tiles and prime lumber. On completion in 1730, the church became the
biggest in the Philippines . A century later, the stone church was destroyed by typhoon
and was repaired in 1839, 1842 and 1848. The roof was replaced with galvanized
iron in 1892 under the supervision of Father Gregorio Platero. During the American
occupation, the church served as headquarters of the American army. Due to damage
brought about by the Spanish and American revolution, the church was again repaired
in 1912. In 1954, the church was placed under the government's rehabilitation
program with the help of the National Conservation Society of the Philippines. In 2001,
it was declared as a National Cultural Treasure by the National Museum.

SIGNIFICANTS EVENTS IN MAJAYJAY CHURCH

Gregory was born in troubled times. Cities and commerce had declined, and
cycles of famine and the plague had depopulated the countryside in the wake of the
emperor Justinian’s reconquest of Italy (535–554). The Lombard invasion of 568
triggered several more decades of war. Centralized bureaucratic control over civil
matters continued to fragment, and this gave rise to local strongmen who held power at
the expense of the civilian senatorial aristocracy. Usurpations of the property, rights,
authority, and even regalia of others marked this fluid society. The church in these
times either could act as a check against this new military aristocracy—in Rome the
Senate was defunct, and the papacy assumed civic responsibilities—or could serve the
secular ambitions of the strongmen and their patronage networks; Gregory fought
tirelessly against these latter corruptions. Gregory was well placed in society. His family
held the Caelian Hill in Rome, properties outside the city, and estates in Sicily, and he
may have shared distant links to gens Anicia, an eminent patrician family. His ancestors
had held illustrious ecclesiastical positions: Pope Felix III (reigned 483–492) was his
great-great grandfather, and Pope Agapetus I (535–536) also may have been a relative.
Gregory’s father, Gordianus, held an office, possibly defensor, but no record of secular
office exists for the family before 573, when Gregory became urban prefect, an office
that eventually fell into desuetude. Germanicus, who succeeded Gregory, may also have
been his brother. Gregory’s mother, Silvia, took vows on the death of her husband, and
three of his aunts also entered religious life. Well educated for the times, Gregory may
have had legal training before entering public service. His conversion to monastic life in
574 was not sudden but grew from a lifelong conflict between his personal desire for
contemplative purity and the public duty to serve others in the “pollution” of worldly
affairs. Renouncing secular life, Gregory established, on family property on the Caelian
Hill, a monastery dedicated to St. Andrew. The “rule” followed there cannot be
identified as that of St. Benedict, nor does evidence exist that Gregory became abbot,
although his Dialogues may give this impression. Gregory founded six more monasteries
on family estates in Sicily but retained sufficient property to make later endowments to
the church. In 579 Pope Pelagius II made Gregory a deacon, sending him as
apocrisiarius (legate) to Constantinople. There Gregory lobbied for aid against the
Lombards but remained ignorant of Greek. In 585–586 he returned to Rome and St.
Andrew’s, resuming the office of deacon. In 590 Gregory was elected pope, taking
office unwillingly. He succeeded Pelagius II, who had succumbed to the plague that
swept Rome that year. According to tradition, Gregory led a penitential procession to
Santa Maria Maggiore during that plague; a vision of the archangel Michael atop
Hadrian’s Tomb (now the Castel Sant’Angelo) convinced him that Rome would be
spared. Today a statue on the Castel Sant’Angelo depicts Michael replacing his sword in
its scabbard. The Seven Penitential Psalms associated with this procession date from
the 12th century and have been incorrectly ascribed to Gregory.

UPDATES IN MAJAYJAY CHURCH

Today, the church contains antique images of santos, reliquaries and century-
old liturgical objects. The current parish priest is Father Robin A. Dagala. The
huge convent (also convento) of the church, which provides a good view of Laguna de
bay, is one of the best preserved convento in the country and is the earliest surviving
example of its kind. It houses a small museum of old parish documents and
ecclesiastical silver. A small portion of the church was converted into the present-
day Liceo de Majayjay, a Catholic school under the supervision of the local parish and
the Diocesan Catholic School System of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Pablo.

Pililla Church (1673)

Pililla Church (1673)
Parish Church of Saint Mary Magdalene of Pililla Pililla, Rizal
Location
F8J4+3Q6, Pililla, Rizal
 HISTORY OF PILILLA CHURCH

I n 1571, the Spaniards conquered and inhabited the towns along Laguna de
Bay. Prior to Spanish colonization, Pililla was named Pilang Munti. It was incorporated to
the administration of Morong and was named Pilang Morong. The Franciscan priests led
by Fr. Diego de Oropesa and Fr. Juan de Plasencia arrived at Pilang Morong in 1572. As
part of the established reducciones system, the Franciscans built the first church made
from cogon and nipa in 1583. When Pilang Morong was given autonomy in 1599, the
central government granted an authorization to construct a church of stone. In 1632, a
conflagration destroyed the church and the whole town. When a new church was built,
another destruction by fire ruined the church in 1668. A new church was immediately
completed between 1670 and 1673. Renovation of the church altar and the adjacent
convent were completed in 1848. Several renovation projects were also completed
between 1962 and 1976.
 SIGNIFICANT EVENTS IN PILILLA CHURCH

The Diocesan Shrine of Saint Augustine, commonly known as the Parish of

Santa Cruz, is a Roman Catholic Church in the municipality of Tanza, in
the province of Cavite, Philippines. The shrine is under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of
Imus. The patron of the town is Saint Augustine of Hippo commonly known as "Tata
Usteng". The Holy Cross serves as the titular patron. The town patronal feast is
celebrated annually every August 28. The parish was declared a structure of historical
significance with the placing of a historical marker by then National Historical
Institute of the Philippines on May 3, 1980.
 UPDATES IN PILILLA CHURCH

The church is made of adobe, similar to other churches in Laguna. The façade
and belfry of the church are simple in design. [3] The Baptistery is located at the bottom
of the bell tower, on the left side from the vestibule of the church. A
small retablo housing the image of St. Mary Magdalene can be found inside the
baptistery.