The Cathedral's history on stone

I got this picture from the book Palo: Twice Capital of Leyte edited by Vicente I. de Veyra in 1971. The marker tells the historical restorations that the Cathedral underwent through the years. I'm not sure where this marker is now. I only have a vague memory of its location. I'll check when I can. (Obviously I am not a Sunday church person!)

Palo Cathedral (after Haiyan)

This is the new Palo Cathedral rebuilt after supertyphoon Yolanda (Haiyan). I've not been inside since but I've gone around the park where the mass grave for some of the Palo Yolanda victims are buried. Photo of that in future posts.

I was about to archive this blog but saw visitors still stumbling here probably through searches. I stopped posting here officially when Tacloban became a charter city.  But I still posted from time to time. So that's what I'm going to do now. Post a photo when I get one, but not anymore daily and as usual, not necessarily of Tacloban. Im keeping the name though even if a lot has changed since then. Including the ability to post directly from my phone!

Sto. Niño Church: Interior and Altar

With the original 'miraculous' Sto. Niño statue on the altar.

Church, laundry and coffee

The church again.. taken across the street where I was picking up laundry at Il Migliore (laundrymat) and having coffee at Jose Karlos.

The Sto. Niño Church

I've been asked to post the Sto. Niño Church, so today being Sunday, I thought I'd do my Catholic part and post the church today. This is the only good one I have while I was trying to take a photo of the bell tower. This church houses the original Sto. Niño image which got drowned along with the boat carrying it from Manila, got lost, and was found being idolized by pagan natives in Mindoro where it had been washed ashore. It was returned to Tacloban and this is mostly why the Sto. Niño Church is popular among Catholics. People here are believers of the miraculous Sto. Niño. If you want photos of the interior, you can find them in this blog. To know more about the history of the Sto. Niño image, click to read this article.