25 Bulacan Churches for your Visita Iglesia (Part 2)

For many people, Holy Week is that time of the year when they would visit churches as their own way of penitence and observing the sanctity of the Christ's passion in the cross. Some would go to far-away provinces to visit different churches though many would prefer nearer churches, especially those who are from Metro Manila. Fortunately, Bulacan, a province just north of Metro Manila, has many churches which are perfect for a meaningful Visita Iglesia.

Bulacan is an averaged sized province and visitors would not be able to cover all its churches in a one day Visita Iglesia. Depending on what visitors prefer and from where they will come from, they can choose from three clusters of churches to be visited. They can choose Eastern Bulacan (Part 1), Southwestern Bulacan (Part 2), or Northwestern Bulacan (Part 3) Visita Iglesia.

Below is a suggested guide to a Visita Iglesia in Southwestern Bulacan:

1. ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISSI CHURCH, Meycauayan

The Awakening of My Wanderlust : Bulacan Tour 2012

In April of 2012, I became an active forumer of Skyscrapercity, a forum dedicated about developments in the different parts of the Philippines. Naturally, I became active in posting at the Bulacan thread because I am from Bulacan.

I came across one of the forumer's post inviting forumers to tour Bulacan in one day and I decided I have to join the tour, given the fact that I have long planned to visit all Bulacan Towns and Cities but was not able to do so. William, the one who arranged the Bulacan tour immediately replied to my private message and told me the details of the tour and the week of preparation followed soon. 

THE DAY I GOT TO FINALLY TOUR (Large part of) BULACAN

Guiguinto Church

The day of the tour came (May 12, 2012) and I finally met the Bulacan forumers in person : William from Balagtas, Juan from Santa Maria, Marcjeff from Malolos, and Informatician from San Jose del Monte. In addition to them, we also have visitors from other provinces: Rod from Isabela, Hugo from La Union and Rusty from Tarlac. We rented a van so that it would be easier for us to tour around the province.

First stop is the town of Guiguinto. We visited the Church of St. Ildephonsus, the town church which was built in the Spanish period, just like many of Bulacan's town churches.

The church is closed but luckily, the caretaker opened it for us so we had the chance to check out the interior of the Church. Unfortunately, the church interior is already renovated and the old altar, constructed in the 1800's, were already replaced with a modern one.