National Registry of Historic Sites and Structures in the Philippines: Church of Orion

Location: Orion, Bataan (Region III)
Category:Buildings/Structures
Type: House of Worship

Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: 1939

Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)

Marker text:

CHURCH OF ORION

THE SPIRITUAL MINISTRATION OF ORION BELONGED FORMERLY TO ABUCAY. ORION BECAME AN INDEPENDENT MISSIONARY CENTER IN 1667. ITS FIRST MINISTER WAST THE REV. DOMINGO PEREZ. THE CHURCH AND THE CONVENT WERE BADLY DAMAGED BY THE EARTHQUAKE OF SEPTEMBER 16, 1852, AND WERE REPAIRED IN 1854. THE REV. ULPIANO HERRERO, CONSTRUCTED THE BEAUTIFUL SACRISTY AND THE MARBLE ALTARS. IN THIS TOWN CAYETANO ARELLANO, EMINENT FILIPINO JURIST AND STATESMAN AND FIRST FILIPINO CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT, WAS BORN, ON MARCH 2,1847. FRANCISCO BALTAZAR "BALAGTAS" ,AUTHOR OF FLORANTE AT LAURA, LIVED IN THIS TOWN FROM JULY 22,1842 TO FEBRUARY 20,1862.

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LEVEL I - Sites and Structures declared as National Shrine, National Historical Landmark, National Historical Site, and National Monument (Entries with asterisks)

LEVEL II - Sites and Structures declared as Heritage Zones/Historic Centers, Heritage Houses and bearing Historical Markers

DELISTED - Declared and/or marked historic sites and structures that were removed from the national registry

LIFTED - Sites and structures 50 years old and above removed of its presumption as Important Cultural Property (R.A. 10066)

Church of Orion

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