Bulacan Heritage Watch

[yhuanista07]

Originally Posted by librero

Nakakalungkot lang... while the southern route of the PNR was revived and upgraded, ganun naman napabayaan na yung northern part... (Bulacan up)

Pero ok lang, kasi pinalitan naman ng hi-speed train system...

Sana lang, yung mga existing pang mga old PNR stations, ma-restore at gawing museum...

sana baguhin nila ung design ng Malolos terminal... at ung character ng Old malolos ang gayahin..

[marcjeff03]

Originally Posted by yhuanista07

Actually hindi po talaga iyon putol... niluwagan nila ung ilog... ginaya ng colinas ung design eh... pero sana nga bigyan ng halaga ito... nagpahinga ako sa ilalim nyan... unti unti nang nawawasak sayang...

ah ganun ba..naku sayang na syang ito..kahawig pa naman kung nasa Malolos Bayan..yung tulay na dinaanan natin

Pag na verify ang exact date at event dyan sa Tulay na yan..Thnaks God..SJDM now has it's genuine heritage site..

Sana..librero..asikasuhin mo na ito agad..heheh

[marcjeff03]

Originally Posted by yhuanista07

sana baguhin nila ung design ng Malolos terminal... at ung character ng Old malolos ang gayahin..

Tama..sana nga

baka mahirapan sila..hehe paano nila immix ang Northrail design sa pttern ng Malolos Station ala Old Style.

[william :D]

Originally Posted by up_mc

upper-left corner: Barasoain Church - Malolos
lower-left corner: National Shrine of Divine Mercy - Marilao
right side (center): La Immaculada Concepcion Church - Santa Maria

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San Agustin Church
Baliuag, Bulacan







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San Juan de Bautista Church
Calumpit, Bulacan



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Tara na! Byahe tayo sa Bulacan!
Lungsod ng Malolos
Lalawigan ng Bulacan



Bulacan Provincial Capitol


The Basilica Minore of Immaculada Conception
The Malolos Cathedral


Barasoain Church: The most important religious building in the Philippines.
(Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish)


Barasoain Church: The most important religious building in the Philippines.
(Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish)


Barasoain Church: The most important religious building in the Philippines.
(Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish)


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Kakarong de Sili Shrine
Pandi, Bulacan

Kakarong de Sili Shrine located at Pandi, Bulacan, it was the battle site where the bloodiest revolution in Bulacan took place where more than 3,000
Katipuneros died in the hands of Spanish Soldiers. It is also the site where the Republic of Real de Kakarong de Sili of 1896 was established.

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American infantry firing at Filipino
insurgents at Balagtas, Bulacan, 1899.

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The History of Balagtas, Bulacan

Originally known as Encomienda Caluya as per as the history records regarding the early years of Bulacan Province, Caluya was mentioned as one of the Six Encomiendas of the Province together with Calumpit 1572, Bulakan 1578, Meycauayan 1578, Malolos 1580 and Binto 1591 (Quingua 1602) later known as Plaridel. It was erected by the Augustinian Missionaries in 1592 under the jurisdiction of the Alcalde Mayor of Bulacan. In 1602, Caluya was formally organized into a town with its own Gobernadorcillo and renamed to Bigaa.
During the Philippine revolution the "insurrectos" and the "Guardia civiles". Many people died, further decimating the town, which has suffered from a cholera epidemic and nearly wiped out the population 20 years before. When the Americans established civil government in 1902, Bigaa and nearby Bocaue were combined to form a town with the latter as the seat government. In 1911, however, Bigaa was separated from Bocaue, and to it was added the town of Pandi, which became one of Bigaa's barrios. In 1946, shortly after the Philippines gained political freedom from the United States, Pandi by virtue of a legislative fiat was given a municipal charter of its own, distinct and apart from Bigaa.

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Historical Information about Pandi, Bulacan
originally posted by TheAvenger

[Manila-X]

I've been having a discussion with various people on The Lady of Lourdes Church / Grotto in San Jose Del Monte Bulacan and the place being sanctioned by The Roman Catholic Church.



Here is why,

Private grotto draws Catholics seeking to be cured

SAN JOSE DEL MONTE CITY, Philippines (UCAN) – A private grotto in northern Philippines draws crowds seeking healing, even though the local bishop has directed priests to stop saying Masses there.

During Holy Week, more than 1,000 people flocked to Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto and Church in Bulacan province's San Jose del Monte City, 95 kilometers (about 60 miles) northeast of Manila.

Some prayed in front of the statue of Our Lady of Lourdes and others queued at a pool to collect "holy" water believed to cure ailments. The water is piped in from a natural spring.

On April 4, a group of women in white sang the Latin hymn “Tantum Ergo,” which is usually sung during adoration of the blessed sacrament. They knelt before the Marian statue and prayed, carrying items they said they use for healing.

One woman uses the "cane of Saint Joseph" to "strike out sickness and temptation." Another claimed her "rope of unity" helps settle quarrels. The residents from Bai, just south of Manila, told a television reporter that they go to the grotto every Wednesday during Holy Week to pray for the renewal of their gift of healing and to get healing water from the spring.

The grotto, built on a 30-hectare lot in Gaya-Gaya Village, was inspired by the famous grotto in Lourdes, France, where the mother of Philippine grotto owner Marietta Guanzon-Holmgren went for healing of cancer of the uterus in 1961. The grotto and an unfinished church, inaugurated in 1965, are now owned and administered by the Holmgren family.

Since the 1960s, it has attracted sick people from around the country, some of whom have donated their crutches, wheelchairs, artificial limbs and other aids after they were reportedly cured. Grotto caretaker Ponciano Sevilla told UCA News that in 1975, there were so many walking aids left at the shrine that they were donated to the Philippine Orthopedic Hospital, northeast of Manila. According to Sevilla, outside the Lenten season, crowds at the shrine are smaller.

In 2004 Holmgren asked Malolos Diocese for personnel to supervise religious activities at the grotto.

Father Rolando de Leon, vicar forane of the southeast area of the diocese, said two priests and a nun were assigned to administer the grotto, but they left one after another. They reported Holmgren was "meddling" too much in their duties and treating them like "paid employees," Father de Leon told UCA News.

He said that in 2005, when the owner did not follow Roman Catholic guidelines on liturgy and worship, Bishop Jose Oliveros of Malolos issued a circular instructing priests to "stop recognizing the grotto church as a Roman Catholic institution." The bishop ordered priests to stop leading religious activities there, Father de Leon added.

Holmgren then invited priests from other denominations and Catholic priests "with bad records" to say Mass and officiate in religious rites at the grotto, Father de Leon said.

When the bishop found out, priests were asked to announce his instruction at Masses and to advise parishioners to stop going to the grotto and church, Father de Leon said.

The priest stressed, however, that the church does not "force" parishioners to stop going to the private grotto or its church. "What we want them to know is that we do not encourage them and that they should know that such a place is no longer a Roman Catholic institution," Father de Leon said.

Those who come are firm believers in the grotto's "miraculous" power to heal.

Maria Ospelo, 42, has been visiting the grotto for 15 years, after she conceive two children despite physicians telling her there was only a "slim" chance for pregnancy.

Teresita Boada, 75, a sweets-shop owner, continues her devotion and "pilgrimage" because her late sister, who visited the spring, lived eight more years after doctors gave her only months to live.

Local businesswoman Sally Montehermoso, however, heeds the diocese's warning and discourages friends from visiting the grotto.

Catechist Daisy San Gabriel-Santos urges people to "respect the decision of the diocese." She said people go to the grotto believing it is "miraculous," but also called on the owner to "strengthen" her faith.

Bulacan province, along with Valenzuela town, in Metro Manila, comprises the Diocese of Malolos, where 85 percent of the 3,120,700 people are Catholics.

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Baliwag Bulacan 1960's
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Baliwag, Bulacan Public Market 1994
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Municipality of Calumpit, Bulacan

Noong panahon unang Rebolusyon ang mga taga Calumpit ay nakiisa sa pakikidigma sa mga Kastila ,ang bayan ng Calumpit ay naging kampo ni Heneral Luna noong 1898 at noon Abril 25 1899 ay naganap ang isang madugong labanan sa Barrio Bagbag ..at noong Abril 1900 ang Calumpit ay naging ganap naitatag bilang munisiplidad sa ilalim ng pamamahala ng Pilipinas at ang kaunaunahang na halal na Mayor dito ay si Juan Galang. .

Bagbag Bridge: Ang pinakamahabang labanan ay naganap dito sa pammumuno ni Hen Gregorio del Pilar .


Ang makasaysayang tulay ng Bagbag.may bahagi ito na bumagsak na dahil sa malakas na lindol noon..ang tulay na ito ay nagpapaalala ng mga maksaaysayang pangyayari ..dito nagkaroon ng mahabang labanan sa pagitan ng mga Pilipino at Amerikano noong Abril 25 1899.






all credits to the owner (Batang Baliwag)
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[william :D]

Originally Posted by yhuanista07

Estacion de Guiguinto 1661






Source

Estacion de Guiguinto 1661 | Bayan ng Guiguinto, Lalawigan ng Bulacan

[Christerdom]

Originally Posted by william :D

Baliwag, Bulacan Public Market 1994
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1994? At first glance I thought, its 1904

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mali ba un caption or yun picture?

[librero]

Tama po pareho...

[william :D]

yep tama po pareho. please see the link for source.