2015, May 27. Archdiocese of Jaro, 150th Year Anniversary
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Archdiocese of Jaro - 150th Year Anniversary
When the whole Visayan Islands were still under the Diocese of Cebu,
Jaro was already a parish supervised by the Augustinians Friars.
In 1865 the Agustinian Friars gave the parish to the diocesan clergy
in exchange of the San Jose Placer as the former was chosen as the
seat of the new Diocese of Jaro. Thus it became a Cathedral
Church but retained its status as the Parish of Our Lady of Candles.
The Jaro Cathedral, formally Jaro Metropolitan Cathedral and
the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Candles (Spanish: Santuario
Nacional de Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria), is the seat of
the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Jaro.
It is located in the district
of Jaro in Iloilo City, Iloilo, on the island of Panay in the
Philippines. It is under the original patronage of Saint Elizabeth
of Hungary.
The Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines formally
declared the cathedral the National Shrine of Our Lady of the
Candles on February 2012. The Cathedral is the second national
shrine in the Visayas, the first being the Basilica del Santo
Niño in Cebu
Along with the boom of the sugar industry of the
Philippines especially centered in Iloilo, several churches and
schools are constructed in Jaro. The original cathedral was built
in 1874 by the first Bishop of Jaro, Mariano Cuartero, O.P.
It was destroyed by an
earthquake in January 1948 and later repaired in 1956 by the first
Archbishop of Jaro, Jose Maria Cuenco.
The Marian image of Our Lady of the Candles also has the distinction
of being canonically crowned by the late Pope John Paul II during
his visit to Iloilo City on February 21, 1981, making it as the only
Marian figure to be given such stature in the Philippines.
The journalist, national hero, and co-founder of the Propaganda
Movement, Graciano López Jaena, was baptized in the Cathedral on
December 20, 1856.
The National Historical Institute of the Philippines declared the
Jaro Cathedral an historical landmark in 1976.
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