| Item Call Number |
CH01168 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
CH01168 |
| Local Free-text Call Number (oclc) |
- Classification number - CH01168
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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 - Catubig Church
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Ayala Museum Research Team
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| General Note |
- General note - In the town originally called Cagninipa was founded one of the three Jesuit religious residences. At the time the village was made a parish in 1649, it was located in what is presently known as the town of Las Navas, almost completely enclosed by mountain ranges. When the town was razed down by Muslim sea pirates sometime in 1772 (or 1773), after 500 inhabitants were held captives for the slave markets in Borneo, the site was transferred to several locations until the present one by the mouth of the river. Hence, the town took on a new name: Catubig, denoting the frequent inundated conditions of the poblacion when the tide was high. Catubig suffered from acute depopulation and this is substantiated by the figures that the administering clerics submitted to their superiors. The Franciscan priests only reported 300 tributaries in 1775 when it had already 510 in 1768. In 1777, it was annexed to Palapat (Palapag) and in 1784 to Lauan (Lauang). The town assumed its present independent status when its first parish priest, Fray Juan de Plasencia, was assigned in 1790. During his administration, he directed the construction of a wooden church which his successor, Fray Jose Mata, strengthened with hewn-stone in 1804. The church was destroyed by a rampaging typhoon years later. Under the supervision of Fray Agaton Martinez, the construction of the present church, a wooden convent, a cemetery at the outskirt of the townsite and a "casa tribunal" went underway. In 1894, a major part of the town was reduced to ashes in a big fire. Fray Antonio Ibanez mobilized his parishioners to reconstruct the pueblo after a town-plan which he himself conceived of. The town was again destroyed in a bitter encounter between the American troops and the revolutionaries in 1900. Lying at 12° 24'' 25" latitude, Catubig is bounded by Palapag at the north, the mountain ranges of Gamay at the east, Las Navas at the south and Pambujan River at the west. Catubig is largely agricultural; rice, coconut, abaca, cacao and camote are cultivated in the plains. The surplus products are exported to Manila and Albay. (also see CH01167)
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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 - Catholic churches
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| Subject Geographic Name |
- Geographic name - Catubig, Samar
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| Subject Faceted Topical Term |
- Focus term - 1972
- Focus term - amrt
- Focus term - architecture
- Focus term - church of saint joseph
- Focus term - samar
- Focus term - san jose
- Focus term - st. joseph
- Focus term - visayas
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