Simbahan ng San Pablo

Location: San Pablo, Laguna

Category: Buildings/Structures

Type: House of Worship

Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: 1957

Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)

Marker text:

SIMBAHAN NG SAN PABLO 

ITINAYO NG MGA PARING AGUSTINO AT INIHANDOG SA POONG SAN PABLO, ERMITANYO. NAPASAILALIM NG PANGANGASIWA NG MGA PARING PRANSISKANO, 1694-1912; FRAY ANDRES CABRERA, UNANG PAROKO, PINALIGIRAN NG PADER ANG SIMBAHAN AT KUMBENTO NOONG 1796, SAMANTALANG ANG KRUSADA NG SIMBAHAN AY ITINAYO SA MAGKASUNOD NA PANGANGASIWA NG MGA PARING EUGENIO GARCIA, FRANCSICO CAVERO AT SANTIAGO BRAVO, 1912. NAGING SEMINARIO MENOR NG SAN FRANCISCO DE SALES, 1912-1918, SA PANGANGASIWA NG MGA PARING PAULES. NAWASAK ANG SIMBAHAN AT KUMBENTO NOONG 1945, PANAHON NG DIGMAAN. MULING ITINATAG ANG SIMBAHAN SA PANGANGASIWA NI P. JUAN CORONEL AT IPINATAPOS NG KASALUKUYANG PAROKONG SI P. NICOMEDES ROSAL SA TULONG NG MGA TAONG BAYAN.   

Archbishop Gabriel M. Reyes

Location: Kalibo, Aklan

Category: Personages

Type: Biographical marker

Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: 1957

Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)

Marker text:

ARCHBISHOP GABRIEL M. REYES 

FIRST CONSECRATED FILIPINO ARCHBISHOP OF MANILA, BORN IN KALIBO, AKLAN, ON 24 MARCH 1892 SON OF EULOGIO REYES AND MANUELA MARTELINO, ORDAINED PRIEST IN JARO, ILOILO, 1905. CHANCELLOR SECRETARY OF BISHOP JAMES P. MELLOSKY OF JARO (1920-1927) VICAR GENERAL OF THE DIOCESE OF JARO, 1927-1932. BISHOP OF CEBU, 1932-1934. FIRST ARCHBISHOP OF CEBU, 1934-1949. TRANSFERRED TO METROPOLITAN SEE OF MANILA AS ARCHBISHOP COADJUTOR 1949. CONSECRATED ARCHBISHOP OF MANILA, 19 MARCH 1950. 

The Code of Kalantiaw

NHCP Photo Collection

Location: Code of Kalantiaw Monument, Batan, Aklan

Category: Sites/Events

Type: Site

Former status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: 1957

Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)

Marker text: 

THE CODE OF KALANTIAW

DATU BENDAHARA KALANTIAW, THIRD CHIEF OF PANAY BORN IN AKLAN, ESTABLISHED HIS GOVERNMENT IN THE PENINSULA OF BATANG, “AKLAN SAKUP.” CONSIDERED THE FIRST FILIPINO LAWGIVER, HE PROMULGATED ABOUT 1422 A PENAL CODE NOW KNOWN AS THE CODE OF KALANTIAW CONTAINING 18 ARTICLES. DON MARCELINO ORFILA OF ZARAGOZA, SPAIN, OBTAINED THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT FROM AN OLD CHIEF OF PANAY AND WAS LATER TRANSLATED INTO SPANISH BY RAFAEL MURVIEDO Y ZAMANEY.

THIS MARKER IS ERECTED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF BATAN, AKLAN ON 1 JUNE 1956.

Current status: Delisted

Basis of delisting: Resolution No. 12, S. 2004 of the National Historical Institute (NHI) declared that the Code of Kalantiao has no valid historical basis.

Delisted by: National Historical Institute (NHI)

Date delisted: 25 November 2004

Birthplace of Juan Luna y Novicio

NHCP Photo Collection, 2014

Location: Badoc, Ilocos Norte

Category: Buildings/Structures and Personages

Type: House, Biographical marker

Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: 1957

Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)

Marker text:

BIRTHPLACE OF JUAN LUNA Y NOVICIO

PATRIOT AND FOREMOST FILIPINO PAINTER. BORN IN BADOC, ILOCOS NORTE, 24 OCTOBER 1857; SON OF JOAQUIN LUNA DE SAN PEDRO AND LAUREANA NOVICIO. STUDIED IN THE ATENEO MUNICIPAL, ESCUELA DE BELLAS ARTES AND ESCUELA NAUTICA IN MANILA; BECAME A LICENSED PILOT AT 17. PUPIL OF LORENZO GUERRERO, NOTED FILIPINO PAINTER. WENT TO SPAIN, 1877, STUDIED IN THE ACADEMIA DE BELLAS ARTES DE SAN FERNANDO, MADRID. PAINTED IN ROME HIS FIRST FAMOUS WORK, “THE DEATH OF CLEOPATRA”. WON GOLD MEDAL FOR HIS SPOLIARIUM AT THE INTERNATIONAL PAINTING EXPOSITION, 1884, IN MADRID. WON OTHER MEDALS AND HONORS IN EUROPE. AMONG HIS OTHER NOTABLE PAINTINGS WERE “THE BATTLE OF LEPANTO”, “THE BLOOD COMPACT”, “PEOPLE AND KINGS”. CO-WORKER OF RIZAL, LOPEZ–JAENA, DEL PILAR AND OTHER FILIPINO REFORMERS IN EUROPE; WAS IN THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE OF THE FIRST PHILIPPINE REPUBLIC. DIED IN HONGKONG, 7 DECEMBER 1899.

Felipe Calderon (Cavite)

NHCP Photo Collection, 2018

Location: San Agustin, Tanza, Cavite

Category: Personages

Type: Biographical marker

Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker dates: 1957

Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)

Marker text:

FELIPE G. CALDERON

GURO, MANANANGGOL, MANUNULAT, PANTAS, AT MAKABAYAN. BUMALANGKAS NG SALIGANG-BATAS NG KAUNAUNAHANG REPUBLIKA NG PILIPINAS. NAGTATAG NG COLEGIO DE ABOGADOS DE FILIPINAS AT NG ESCUELA DE DERECHO DE MANILA, 1899. KAUNAUNAHANG PANGULO NG ASOCIACION DE TAGALISTAS, 1904. TAGAPAGTATAG, ASOCIACION HISTORICA DE FILIPINAS, 1905. ANAK NINA JOSE GONZALES CALDERON AT MANUELA ROCA; IPINANGANAK SA TANZA (SANTA CRUZ DE MALABON), KABITE, 4 ABRIL 1868. NANIRAHAN SA PUROK NG SANTA ANA. NAMATAY SA MAYNILA, 6 HUNYO 1908.

Jose Rizal (Paco Cemetery)

NHCP Photo Collection, 2011

NHCP Photo Collection, 2011

Location: Paco Cemetery, Manila (Region NCR)

Category:  Sites/Events
Type: Burial Site
Status: Level II - Historical marker 
Marker date: 1957

Marker text:

JOSE RIZAL

EXECUTED 30 DECEMBER 1896; INTERRED SECRETLY IN THIS SPOT BY THE AUTHORITIES ON THE SAME DAY; GUARDED FOR FIFTEEN DAYS BY THE GUARDIA CIVIL VETERANA. REMAINS EXHUMED 17 AUGUST 1898, PLACED IN AN URN MADE BY TEODORO ROMUALDO DE JESUS, DEPOSITED IN THE HOUSE OF HIS MOTHER IN ESTRAUDE STREET, BINONDO, AND ON 30 DECEMBER 1912 LAID BENEATH HIS MONUMENT AT THE LUNETA.

Goldenberg Mansion

Location: Gen. Solano Street, San Miguel, Manila (Region NCR)
Category: Buildings/Structures
Type: Guest House
Status: Level II - Historical marker
Marker date: 1957
Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)
Marker text:

GOLDENBERG MANSION

BUILT BY THE EUGSTER FAMILY FROM WHOM IT WAS ACQUIRED BY THE OIDOR DE LA AUDENCIA, JOSE MORENO LACALLE; OCCUPIED BY ADMIRAL PATRICIO MONTOJO OF THE SPANISH NAVY, 1897-1898, LATER BY THE SPANISH ROYAL NAVY CLUB, 1898. HOME AND HEADQUARTERS OF GENERAL ARTHUR MACARTHUR, 1899. BECAME THE OFFICES OF THE PHILIPPINE PRELIMINARY EXPOSITION TO THE INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION, ST. LOUIS MO., U.S.A., 1903-1904. THE FIRST PHILIPPINE SENATE HELD ITS SESSIONS HERE, 1917. BOUGHT AND OCCUPIED BY MICHAEL GOLDENBERG, 1950.

Intramuros and its Walls*

NHCP Photo Collection,2010

NHCP Photo Collection,2010

NHCP Photo Collection,2010

Location: Intramuros, Manila (Region NCR)
Category: Structure
Type: Fortification
Status: Level I- National Historical Monuments

Legal basis: Republic Act 597, Republic Act 1818 and P.D. 1616

Declaration dates: 1951, 1957, 1979

Church of Lubao*

NHCP Photo Collection, 2017

NHCP Photo Collection, 2017

NHCP Photo Collection, 2017

NHCP Photo Collection, 2017

Location: Lubao, Pampanga (Region III)

Category: Buildings/Structures

Type: House of Worship

Status: Level I- National Historical Landmark

Legal basis: Resolution No. 8, s. 1991

Marker date: 1957

Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)

Marker text:

CHURCH OF LUBAO

FOUNDED 1572 IN BARRIO SANTA CATALINA. MOVED TO THIS SITE THIRTY YEARS LATER DUE TO YEARLY FLOODS. ARCHITECT FR. ANTONIO HERRERA, AUGUSTINIAN, CONSTRUCTED THIS CHURCH 1614–1630 OUT OF LOCALLY-MADE BRICK AND SAND MIXED IN EGG ALBUMEN CONTRIBUTED BY THE PEOPLE OF LUBAO. OCCUPIED 1898 BY THE REVOLUTIONISTS. USED AS HOSPITAL 1899 BY AMERICAN FORCES. DESTROYED 1942 BY JAPANESE SHELLING. REPAIRED 1949–1952, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF FR. MELENCIO GARCIA AND OTHER PRIESTS.