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Courtesy of BOHOL MAGAZINE
| The first doctrineros
who arrived in Baclayon were the Jesuits, Fr. Juan de Torres and Fr.
Gabriel Sanchez. Some 200 natives were utilized under forced labor
to build the church. The walls were made from coral stones taken from
the sea, cut into blocks and piled on top of the other using bamboo
as rigging and a million egg whites as cementing material. |
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| In
1717, Baclayon was finally created as the Parish of the Immaculate
Concepcion and the present church totally finished in 1727. The parish
acquired a big bell in 1835. Its antiquity is written in its high
altar and upon the painting in the ceilings. Beside the church is a museum that houses centuries-old religious relics and other antiquities. One can find a statue of the Blessed Virgin (said to be given by the Queen Catherine of Aragon),an ivory statue of the crucified Christ looking heavenward, relics of famous saints like St. Ignatius of |
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| Loyola, old vestments embroidered in gold thread, mass songs written in sheepskin and books with covers made of carabao skin. |
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With a monastery
type building, the Baclayon church has an eerie dungeon reserved for
natives who violated the Roman Catholics Laws - a concrete evidence
of the extreme measures of discipline imposed upon the natives in
order to suppress their supposedly pagan ways of living. |
The
HERITAGE SITES
Baclayon
Church
Blood
Compact Site
Maribojoc Watch Tower
Baclayon Museum
Bohol Museum
Old Churches
More attractions...
- Whale watching
- Mag-aso Falls
- Native products
- Hinagdanan Cave
- Man-made forest
- Old churches and towers
- Loboc River cruise
- Fiestas
... and even more....
