Status: Level II - Historical marker
Marker date: 1937
Marker date: 1937
Installed by: Historical Research and Markers Committee
Marker text:
SAN PEDRO MACATI
THE FRANCISCANS WERE THE FIRST MISSIONARIES HERE IN 1578. THE JESUITS BUILT THIS CHURCH IN 1620 AND ADMINISTERED IT UNTIL 1768..ADJOINING WERE THE NOVITIATE FOR THE JESUITS AND A HOUSE OF RETREAT. BOTH THE CHURCH AND NOVITIATE WERE DEDICATED TO SAN PEDRO IN MEMORY OF THE REV. PEDRO DE LOS MONTES, BUILDER OF THE CHURCH AND OF CAPTAIN PEDRO DE BRITTO, REGIDOR OF MANILA, WHO DONATED THE SITE CALLED BUENAVISTA IN 1607 AND ENDOWED THE NOVITIATE.
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