| Item Call Number |
GE00852 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
GE00852 |
| Local Free-text Call Number (oclc) |
- Classification number - GE00852
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| Main Entry |
- Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element - Ayala Museum Research Team
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Guiuan
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Ayala Museum Research Team
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| General Note |
- General note - In 1609, the Jesuit residence of Dulac embraced parts of Leyte and Ibabao (eastern coast of Samar). Guiguan, a small village of 180 tributaries was listed as one of the thirteen charges of the mission. (The Guiguanos paid their tributes in the form of palm-oil and various coconut extracts.) The administration of Guiguan was turned over to the Augustinians when the Jesuits were expelled from the colony in 1768. Twenty-seven years later, the mission was handed to the Franciscans who only formally received the assignment in 1804. The town''s first Franciscan parish priest was Fray Miguel Perez. A church was erected by the Jesuits at the start of their mission. This was destroyed by a strong typhoon that hit the town. The Franciscans built another church in 1844. Fray Manuel Valverde and Fray Pedro Monasterio remodeled the same with roof tiles. The facade of the present church has a two-storey structure that supports its triangular pediment. Four rows of three Corinthian columns line up each of the two lower storeys. Intricate carvings decorate the panels of the wooden portals. The bell-tower of rubble masonry and founded on a fortress-like base stands five meters away from the left side of the church. Its first administrators dedicated the religious mission to the Immaculate Conception. Guiguan''s mountainous terrains are fine havens of quality-timbers which include the world-famous "Sudijan." The surrounding waters yield a wide range of fishes and mother-of-pearl shells. Agriculture centers on the cultivation and harnessing of coconuts. Originally intended to be the staging area for the ultimate assault on Japan, the town was made into an arsenal by the US Navy toward the end of World War II. The plan was abandoned when Japan unconditionally surrendered. Guiguan was left a virtual ghost-town. Russians who fled from Shanghai when the communists overran the mainland were sheltered in Guiguan in 1949. Lying at 10° 55' latitude on a neck of land which just out of the southern tip of Samar Island, Guiguan is bounded by Salcedo at the north, the sea at the east, a group of islets at the south and Quinapundan at the northeast.
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| Additional Physical Form Available Note |
- Additional physical form available note - With prints
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| Immediate Source Of Acquisition Note |
- Source of acquisition - Filipinas Heritage Library
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| Ownership And Custodial History |
- History - Filipinas Heritage Library
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| Subject Chronological Term |
- Chronological term - 1972
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Provinces and cities
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| Subject Geographic Name |
- Geographic name - Guiuan, Eastern Samar
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| Subject Faceted Topical Term |
- Focus term - 1972
- Focus term - amrt
- Focus term - guiguan
- Focus term - samar
- Focus term - visayas
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