ANGELES CITY -- Beside the Archdiocesan Shrine of Christ, Our Lord of the Holy Sepulcher – famously Apung Mamacalulu Shrine – in Barangay Lourdes Sur stands not your typical convento or rectory that serves as the official residence of the cura parroco.
The traditional bahay na bato in the original Paras-Dayrit estate where the shrine is sited monumentalizes the Angeleño’s rich ilustrado past. Though built in 1917 – during the American Period – as residence of Dr. Clemente Nepomuceno-Dayrit, and his wife Dona Susana Nepomuceno, the house bears much Spanish influence – from its thick adobe walls, ventanillas, ornate latticework on the eaves and interior walls, and the wide hardwood floor planks to the ceramic wash basins and four-poster beds in the bedrooms.
Words can never describe
everything that one sees, much less that one feels – the majesty of the place
best experienced in person. Pictures here serving as mere invitations.
On your next Apo
pilgrimage, immerse yourself in the bahay na bato. After your prayers
and supplications, of course.
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