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Estoria ni Rosa Vasquez ken ti Simbaan diay Camposanto

Aug 3, '07 6:16 PM
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Sorry for non-Iloco speakers or should I say, readers as this article is in Iloco language. We'll try our best to translate this in English soon. Anyhow, thanks to Nigellus for sharing this info!

Segun iti estoria ti taga-Bangued, ti simbaan diay Camposanto a mabirokan iti laud Zone 3, Bangued, Abra ket tulong ti maysa nga agnagan ti Rosa "Balitok" - balitok gapu ta nakabirok iti balitok ni Rosa nga indonarna iti simbaan idi tawen 1910.

Kastoy ti estoria ni Mrs. Mercedes Guy nga apo ni Rosa. Ni Rosa Vasquez ket anak da Pedro Vasquez ken Paula Valera. Adda dua a kabsatna: da Espiridiona ken Francisca. Naikamang ni Espiridiona iti Plurad. Ni Caridad nga anakda naikamang iti Barros. Isu ti ina ni Mercedes Barros nga asawa ni Atty. Esteban Guy ken ni Estelita Barros.

Naalisto a negosiante ni Rosa. Aggatang iti tagapulot ken bukel ti utong ditoy Bangued sana ibiahe diay Manila. Aggatang metten diay Manila iti lupot kadagiti Intsik nga ilakona ditoy Abra. Iti maysa a bigat a napan nagibleng (awan pay la ti napintas nga toilet idi) adda naabayna a landok a naimula ket pinadasna a pag-uten. Saanna pay a magunay. Kinalina. Anian a siddaawna - dakkel a bato a balitok!

Inlimedna daytoy a nabirokanna. Dina ammo ti aramidenna. Saan a makaturog. Aginggana nga inkeddengna ti mangipakaammo ti Padi nga Aleman nga agdama idi a Kura Paroko - ni Fr. Teodoro Buttenbruch. Nagpatanganda a maidonar iti simbaan a pagaramid ti simbaan diay camposanto.

Nagdinamag ti nabirokan ni Rosa a dakkel a balitok. Iti maysa a rabii, iti balay dagiti Vasquez, nabati ni Francisca ken ni Lourdes Bragas a katulongda. Awan ni Rosa nga agnegnegosyo diay Manila. Kapampanaw ni Gabino Balbin ta napan nagay-ayam diay plaza. Maysa idi nga ubing ni Gabino nga ay-aywananda ta anak ti kasinsinda. Pagam-ammoam adda lallaki a nakaabungot. Birokenda ken Francisca ti ayan ti balitok. Gapu ta saan nga ammo ni Francisca, minaloda aginggat natay. Nagriaw ni Lourdes a katulongda. Inramanda a pinatay tapno awan saksi.

Saan pay a nagpatingga ti gasat ni Rosa. Iti panaang-angkatna iti lupot kadagiti Intsik nakayawid iti maysa rolyo a lupot dagiti Intsik a nakabirokanna manen ti dakkel a pirale dagiti Intsik. Saan nga ammo dagiti naggatanganna a nailemmeng ti pirak iti rolyo ti lupot. Manarimaan idi ti gubat diay Tsina nga naawagan ti "Tong War". Mabalin a nagilemmeng dagiti aggugubat iti kuarta kadagiti lupot dagiti negosiante. Indonar manen ni Rosa daytoy a gatad para iti pannakabangon dagiti nadrillo a nicho diay camposanto.

Kalpasan ti liberation, winayawayaanen ti Amerikano ti Pilipinas manipud kadagiti Hapon, dimmawat manen ni Rosa ti gatad manipud iti "War Damage Commission" ti Amerika. Nakaala manen ti gatad nga intedna ken Fr. Jose Heuwagen a pinagpasimpada kadagiti naperdi a bulto ken simbaan.

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Shrine of San Lorenzo Ruiz and The Camposanto (28 photos)

Aug 3, '07 4:30 PM
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Its neo-gothic facade and church design was sketched by Brother Arnulf Rademaker, a German SVD missionary carpenter who also redesigned the Bangued Cathedral's facade and belltower. Read the Ilocano story about Doña Rosa Vasquez and this small church's construction here.

Below are some excerpts from the book "Along the Mission Trails in the Philippines" by Rev. Bruno Hagspiel, SVD pp. 139-140 and also quoted in "History of the SVD - Abra Mission in the Philippines 1909-1956" by Rev. Fr. Miguel Hergesheimer, SVD pp. 48-49.

Protestanism had made but little headway in the capital town of Bangued. When Aglipayanism attempted to secure a foothold in Bangued, Divine Providence interfered. The Aglipayan priest became involved in a quarrel with Gregorio Aglipay, its founder who thereupon suspended him. To get even, the priest took a wife and sold the church with all its goods and chattels.

The above event helped Apo Doro (Fr. Theodore Buttenbruch) to bring back many erring sheep into the fold. Eight thousand souls returned, and the big church began to prove inadequate to accommodate the growing number of Christians. So the good priest Apo Doro seriously considered erecting a new church for the Christians in the western section of the town. Certain noble souls declared themselves willing to undertake this project. Particularly, the kind hearted and generous women who gave unselfishly to the project were Francisca Vasquez and her sister Rosa, and Engracia Beneza and her sister Placida. They practiced great self denials in order to bring about the building of this church. Francisca displayed the keenest interest of the group to adorn the high altar. She procured a five feet crucifix from Manila. Apo Doro blessed it, but meantime, while the church was still being built, she has to keep it in her room and prayed before it night and day. Here she often expressed the wish that she be buried at its foot.

But every stone added to the new chapel added fuel to the hatred of many enemies of the Faith who were determined to stop it. As Francisca was the prime mover, she was selected to become the victim of Satan's malice. One night, while the rain poured down in torrents and the town was submerged in inky darkness (no light to be seen, save the flickering taper before the crucifix in Francisca's room), four assassins broke into Francisca's house, plunged a dagger into this noble woman and also killed her woman servant. There, at the foot of her crucifix, she laid, her heart pierced as had been her Saviour's.

An outcry of horror arose from the whole community when the news of this detestable murder was known. During her interment, many followed her corpse to its last resting place. Her beautiful crucifix was yet to be installed over the high altar as soon as the church will be completed. It had been planned to be dedicated to the Church on May 3, 1922, but her murder brought indescribable diffuculties. For two years the building of the Church was stalled, the structure stood uncovered. There seemed to be no money forthcoming to furnish a roof or any of the other necessary building materials for its completion.