Old, Historic Churches

Oton’s Old Church: An unbelievably interesting report and some more photos of the Old Church

Posted by Fergus on August 2, 2013
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In doing some research for another projected church visit, we accidentally came upon some more photos of the ‘Old Oton’ Church both before and after the Lady CayCay disaster of January 1948 along with some newspaper reports of the event.

At the same time, I was in touch with local Town Councillor Juan Miguel (Migs) Flores who has a large collection is historical photos on Oton in particular and Iloilo in general.

We’ve agreed that he will allow me to view his collection, and I am hoping the he’ll also allow me to publish some more of those photos here. More on this later.

Church of the Immaculate Conception, Oton

Church of the Immaculate Conception, Oton

press this link to read: “The Rest of the Story”

TOP 10 DOWNLOADED PHOTOS.

Posted by Fergus on July 24, 2013
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To follow up our series on the 6 most popular churches based on the number of your visits to the site, we decided to take a look at the most popular downloaded photos, while we were at. Oddly, it doesn’t necessarily coincide with the churches visited. Interesting!

Hope you enjoy these photos!

To view the top 10 downloaded photos please click on the photo below:

St Joseph, Patron Saint of Canada.

St Joseph, Patron Saint of Canada.

Something new on Oton’s Old Church

Posted by Fergus on November 20, 2012
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The Very Friendly Mayor of Oton, Vicente B. Flores Jr, when I was visiting with him on business, loaned me a fabulous book written by his Great, Great Grandfather. The book is crammed with so many surprises, it is a real treasure for anyone looking at the history of Panay Island and Iloilo specifically.

Here is what the press release that accompanied the re-published version of the book had to report: “the Instituto Cervantes in Manila and Cacho Publishing House present Memoirs of the Philippines by Félix Laureano. Published in 1895, Laureano´s work provides us with scenes of daily life, landscapes and peoples, mostly from the region of Panay. He penned essays to accompany each photograph, lavishing details that, until today, draw the viewer´s gaze to that other time and place.”

If you can find a copy, make sure you get it…it is well worth the trouble of finding it as well as the expense of acquiring it.

To read The Rest of the Story, click on this link.

We’ve added something interesting in Santa Barbara…

Posted by Fergus on November 9, 2012
Posted in: Old, Historic Churches, Santa Barbara Church, Sta Barbara, Iloilo. Leave a Comment

We’ve added a photo of the proposed development plan for the Santa Barbara Church property.

We were granted the permission of Marcos Caratoa of  www.exploreiloilo.com to use the picture on the site.

Thanks Marcos, we appreciate your cooperation!

to view the Santa Barbara Church re-development plan, please click on this link

to visit Marcos Caratoa’s www.exploreiloilo.com, please click on this link.

 

Sta Barbara Church, Santa Barbara, Iloilo, the Historic Cradle of Independence in the Visayas

Posted by Fergus on October 18, 2012
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HP Heritage Rating:   for more information click here

The historic old church of Santa Barbara built between 1845 and 1873 by Augustinian Friars was the place where Martin Delgado the famed Filipino Revolutionary raised the Cry of Santa Barbara on November 17, 1898 that began the Philippines Revolution in the Visayas…

The driving distance from our jumping off point at the SM City parking lot in Iloilo to the Church of Santa Barbara in Santa Barbara is approximately 20 kilometres. This translates into a driving time of about 30 minutes.

For the Rest of the Story on this amazing church, press this link.

Mina’s Church of Our Lady of the Pillar, A Real Disappointment!

Posted by Fergus on October 8, 2012
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 It is only 36 kilometres from our jumping off point at the SM City Mall parking lot in Iloilo to the Church of Our Lady of the Pillars, Mina, Iloilo. It’s an easy 40 to 45 minute drive.

HP HERITAGE RATING:    for more information click here

We recently visited this little country Church in Mina,Iloilo and what we found was a country church is real disrepair in desperate need of some tender loving care…Perhaps some of the big name politicians who were born and raised in Mina should get involved and do something tangible for their hometown friends and relatives to say nothing of their home church.

It’s a real shame and this church really needs help!

To see more on this ‘poor country church’ press this link.

Two old 16th Century Churches at Ermita and Dumangas, Iloilo

Posted by Fergus on September 23, 2012
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The Chapel at Ermita and St Augustine Church in Dumangas date back to the earliest Christianization efforts on Panay Island, led by Friar Martin de Rada and his collegues in the late 1500′s. Two really interesting churches…

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To read The Rest of the Story on both these fabulous old churches click here.