Location: Ayala Boulevard, San Miguel, Manila
Category: Association/Institution/Organization
Type: Institutional marker
Status: Level II – Historical marker
Marker date: 17 October 1939
Installed by: Historical Research and Markers Committee
Marker text:
HOSPICIO DE SAN JOSE
FRANCISCO GOMEZ ENRIQUEZ AND HIS WIFE, BARBARA VERZOSA, FOUNDED THIS INSTITUTION IN 1782 FOR THE POOR AND FEEBLE-MINDED. A LIST OF ITS PATRONS IN THE ENTRANCE HALL INCLUDES NAMES OF SOME OF THE MOST NOBLE FAMILIES IN MANILA. THE INSTITUTION CARES FOR THE NEEDY, FROM FOUNDLINGS TO THE MOST AGED AND HELPLESS, AND GIVEN CHILDREN PRACTICAL AND RELIGIOUS EDUCATION. ORIGINALLY LOCATED IN PANDACAN, IT WAS FIRST MOVED TO INTRAMUROS AND THEN TO BINONDO; THENCE TO THIS ISLET IN 1835-1840. THE SISTERS OF CHARITY HAVE BEEN ADMINISTERING IT SINCE 1865; ITS FOUNDLING ASYLUM DATES 1903; FROM 1905 TO 1917 THE PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT SENT JUVENILE DELINQUENTS TO THIS INSTITUTION.
