When The bad Traveler was in Iloilo, one of the sites we visited was The Church of St. Elizabeth of Hungary in Iloilo, more commonly understood as the Jaro Cathedral. It was lovely as well as old. There was an continuous mass as well as since we didn’t want to get interest taking pictures, we decided to not whip out our camera inside. The church seems to be undergoing interior reconstruction when we were there.

The Jaro Cathedral was built in 1864. It was the exact same year that Pope Pius IX named the district a diocese by order of the very first bishop of Jaro, His Grace Mariano Cuaterno.

WHAT’S covered IN THIS GUIDE?

ARCHITECTURE as well as RECONSTRUCTION
THE POPE’S VISIT
THE woman OF CANDLES

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ARCHITECTURE as well as RECONSTRUCTION

Jaro Cathedral boasts a baroque style with some Gothic aspects which were added over numerous renovations with the years. Renovations, you ask? like most old churches in the Philippines, this cathedral have experienced from many destructive forces including an earthquake in January 1948 that almost destroyed the site completely. however by order of Jaro’s very first archbishop in 1956, His Excellency Jose Ma. Cuenco, the cathedral was restored.

THE POPE’S VISIT

Did some research study after our trip to Iloilo. Apparently, the Jaro Cathedral was the very first cathedral to be developed in Panay. national hero Graciano Lopez Jaena was baptized right here in 1856. Pope John Paul II likewise visited the cathedral as well as conducted a mass in 1982. The pope likewise set a crown upon one of the statues — Nuestra Senora de la Candelaria (the woman of Candles) — as well as revealed that it was Western Visayas’ Patroness.

THE woman OF CANDLES

By the way, the woman of Candles 400 years old as well as is the only female statue in the array of pictures inside the cathedral. It is perched on a shrine, the walls of which are made from glass. legend has it that the limestone is growing as well as that it had grown as well big for its original casing. It is stated to be miraculous as well as is in truth the center of Jaro Fiesta celebrated on February 2 of every year.

This is part of our ILOILO-GUIMARAS-CEBU trip. For more posts about the other locations we have visited, inspect out our collection here.

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