Saturday, April 6, 2013
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Saint Paul Metropolitan Cathedral, Vigan City
St. Paul’s Metropolitan
Cathedral was built by the Augustinian clergy around 1790 and like the
St. William’s Cathedral, it has features a design intended to minimize
earthquake damage that was referred to as “earthquake baroque”.
Furthermore, it also features the Neo-Gothic and pseudo Romanesque
motifs. There are brass
communion handrails copied from China, complete with Chinese characters
scribbled by its makers.
In the south of the cathedral lies the eight-sided bell tower used as a safety measure of the church. It was said to be built separately so that in any event of an earthquake, it would not topple into the church. The design said to have a Chinese Feng Shui influences. Lies inside the church is a tombstone of the great Ilocano poet Leona Florentino.
It is also in this church where Vigan’s Beloved late Governor Floro Crisologo was gunned down while he knelt on a pew inside the Cathedral in 1970.
In the south of the cathedral lies the eight-sided bell tower used as a safety measure of the church. It was said to be built separately so that in any event of an earthquake, it would not topple into the church. The design said to have a Chinese Feng Shui influences. Lies inside the church is a tombstone of the great Ilocano poet Leona Florentino.
It is also in this church where Vigan’s Beloved late Governor Floro Crisologo was gunned down while he knelt on a pew inside the Cathedral in 1970.
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the internet . . . thanks:)
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