Location: Sta. Cruz, Manila (Region NCR)
Category: Buildings/Structures
Type: House of Worship
Status: Level II – Historical marker
Marker date: 1937
Installed by: Historical Research and Markers Committee
Marker text:
CHURCH OF STA. CRUZ
THE CHURCH WAS BUILT AND ADMINISTERED BY THE JESUITS UP TO 1768. ADIOINING WAS TI-IE JESUIT COLLEGE OF SAN ILDEFONSO, FOUNDED BY GOVERNOR ALFONSO FAJARDO DE LA TENZA ON IANUARY 9, 1724. THE TITULAR PATRONESS OF THE CHURCH IS NUESTRA SENORA DEL PILAR, WHOSE STATUE WAS BROUGHT FROM SPAIN PRIOR TO 1768. THE CONFRATERNITY OF NUESTRA SENORA DEL PILAR WAS CANONICALLY ERECTED IN THIS CHURCH IN 1743. ON TI·IE SURROUNDING PLAZA THE BRITISH RETURNED THE CITY OF MANILA TO SIMON DE ANDA Y SALAZAR IN 1764.
