i have a very conservative family- very religious and closed-knit. you can say that at the very young age, i was able to memorize all the prayers of the rosary, the mysteries, some novena, and the list goes. most of the time, i place 1st in our religion classes because of this "rigid" training at home.
anyhow, our visits to daanbantayan always entails HEARING MASS, LIGHTING CANDLES, or just to show respect to our homegrown religion and faith. thus, i got to see the very beautiful STA. ROSA church.
this is where my parents got hitched.. hehehe! sorry, married is the right term. after 29 years, they are still very much together, surviving the tests of relationships, family and others. i don't have much memories about this church coz most of the time, we hear mass at St. Michael Church at tapilon. i only get to dropby most of the time to light candles during all souls/saints day. but if i remember it correctly, we got to hear mass there once, during the fiesta celebration on august. hmmmm.. i just don't recall what year though.
anyhow, i just got mesmerized the moment i saw it. for sure, it has existed for centuries already. i can see the resemblance with the basillica minore del sto. niño which was built way back spanish era.
just to give you an overview, i came across this article about the church. it's not lengthy though, but very educational. Read on!
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Although the parish was established on August 10, 1858, in accordance with the approbation given on April 10, 1855, and although the parish was established as separate entity from Bantayan to which it was attached as a visita, the town’s name suggests that this was the former site of Bantayan. Tradition has it that this is so; the transfer of the populace to another site was instigated by slaving raid on the old town site. There a number of towns labeled “daan” or “old” in Cebu the telltale mark of slave raids.
Daan Bantayan chose as patron Santa Rosa. As a newly constituted parish, Daan Bantayan’s church was modest: a structure of tabique and wood with a thatch roof (Redondo 1886, 165).
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