Taal Basilica seen in whole new light
Before sunset, Taaleños eagerly gathered around the patio of the Minor Basilica of San Martin de Torres. By dusk, darkness shrouded the basilica’s silhouette to reveal the warm lights that
Before sunset, Taaleños eagerly gathered around the patio of the Minor Basilica of San Martin de Torres. By dusk, darkness shrouded the basilica’s silhouette to reveal the warm lights that
Ramon Orlina, noted sculptor and native son of Batangas, has warned of further damage to the centuries-old Taal Basilica, possibly the collapse of its ancient walls and bell tower, following the 5.5-magnitude earthquake that rocked southern Luzon on April 4.
The battle over the construction of a one-story events venue beside the historic Taal Basilica in Batangas took a new twist after sculptor Ramon Orlina hurled a contempt charge against the parish priest for defying a local judge’s order to stop the project.
Three weeks after the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NCHP) requested Msgr. Fred Madlangbayan to stop the construction of a building beside Taal Basilica, workers are still busy finishing the structure’s washroom.
Squinting in the cruel midday sun, a handful of construction workers carried heavy steel bars to the left side of the Basilica San Martin de Tours, more popularly known as the Taal Basilica, where the ground floor of a new structure was about to be completed.
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