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2 Architecture
The church houses two National Cultural Treasures declared by the National Museum of the Philippines; the
Santa Ana Site Museum located in the convent patio and The church structure follows the Baroque architectural
the Camarn de la Virgen (or the Dressing Room of the style, utilizing adobe blocks in its wall surface nish
to give an impression of massiveness.[4] Its oor plan
Virgin).
formed the shape of a Latin cross oriented in northsouth direction, with the main entrance facing north.
The church facade is divided into three levels by heav1 History
ily molded string courses. The topmost level or the pediment is adorned with Vitruvian-scroll design on its rakThe town of Santa Ana was rst established by the Span- ing cornice, and a central niche anked with octagonal
ish Franciscan missionaries in 1578, in a settlement be- windows.[4] The second level is composed of semicircuside a creek connecting to the Pasig River, which the lo- lar arched windows covered with stained glass. The lowcal inhabitants referred to as Spa. Its rst church, ded- ermost level is the main entrance anked with two niches
icated to their titular patroness Saint Anne, was made of containing the statues of St. Anne and St. Joachim, the
nipa and bamboo until a decree from the Colonial Gov- parents of the Virgin Mary. The ornamentation is mostly
ernment in 1599 permitted the religious order to build the found in the frames of lateral niches and the moldings
church in stone.[1] However, the construction came only in the cornices and the apertures.[2] Attached to the right
around 1720 upon the direction of then parish priest of side of the structure next to the church facade is the fourSanta Ana Fr. Vicente Ingls, OFM wherein a new site oored octagonal bell tower, also made of adobe blocks
was chosen, which is the current location of the struc- and were embellished by heavy string courses and other
ture. Dedicated to Our Lady of the Abandoned (Nuestra ornamentation.
Seora de los Desamparados), the building of the stone
church began in September 12, 1720 with the laying of
the cornerstone by Governor General and Archbishop of
3 Notable Features and CompoManila Francisco de la Cuesta, OSA.[1] The construction
nents
took ve years to nish, with the total cost of 33,000 including the donation of the Governor General amounting
to four thousand pesos.[1][2]
3.1 Baptistery
In the early 1700s, Fr. Ingls went to Valencia, Spain.
The friar had been very enamored of a famous image of
Our Lady that had become a popular spiritual attraction
in Valencia. The image was known as the Our Lady of the
Abandoned. While Fr. Ingls was in Valencia, in the year
1713 he decided to have a copy of this image for Santa
Ana Parish, which was in the process of being constructed
near Manila. After reverently touching the copy to the
original image, the friar brought the new replica image
with him to the Philippines in 1717. The image has been
3.2
Retablo
Saints, namely Saint Bonaventure , Saint Peter of Alcantara, Saint Bernardino of Siena and Saint Clare. The cen
tral niche of the second or main level is occupied by Our
Lady of the Abandoned at the center, which is anked
by the images of Saint Dominic and Saint Francis of Assisi, founders of Catholic religious orders, and Biblical
gures Saint John the Baptist and Saint John the Evangelist. The upper level niches contained the images of Saint
Anne (the titular patron of Santa Ana district) at the cen- Due to the preservation of the structure as well as the irter with Saint Peter and Saint Paul on its sides. At the top replaceable value of its paintings, which were considered
the retablo is the image of Saint Michael the Archangel, the oldest datable, the Camarn de la Virgen was declared
which is anked by medallions containing the painted im- a National Cultural Treasure on November 2008 by the
National Museum of the Philippines.[7]
ages of Saint Didacus and Saint Paschal Baylon.
3.5
Pozo de la Virgen
Located at the back of the Santa Ana Church is the Capillita de la Virgen del Pozo (Small Chapel of the Virgin of
the Well). Better known as the Pozo de la Virgen (Well
of the Virgin), it housed a well or spring, which was believed to contain healing waters.The exact date of its construction is currently unknown, although it was generally
assumed to be around the 18th century; almost the same
period as the building of the Santa Ana Church.[8] The
Pozo de la Virgen enshrines an 18th-century wood and
ivory relieve image of the Our Lady of the Abandoned,[8]
placed in a low niche and appeared to be guarding the sacred well which was in front of it. A wooden trap door,
which has occupied most of the oor space, opens the
passage to the well. There are ten stone steps that leads
to the water level,[2] which was contained within a small
stone-and-concrete arched chamber.
3.6
References
Annual Report
[8] Austria, Jose Alain (2013). Virgen de los Desamparados/del Pozo: Sacred Space, Syncretism and the Geopolitics of Healing Water. MANILA: Selected Papers of the
MSA 21st Annual Conference.
[9] Laya, Jaime C. (July 518, 2011). The Virgins Well, the
Temple to Pao Ong Hu and to the Mother of Sta. Ana.
Tulay: Chinese-Filipino Digest. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
[10] Fox, Robert B.; Legaspi, Avelino (1977). Excavations at
Santa Ana. Manila: National Museum of the Philippines.
[11] Presidential Decree No. 260 August 1, 1973. The LawPhil Project. Arellano Law Foundation. Retrieved 10 May
2014.
[12] Historical Markers: Metropolitan Manila. National Historical Institute. 1993. p. 210. ISBN 971-538-046-8.
Retrieved October 16, 2014.
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