Location: Sta. Maria, Bulacan
Category: Buildings/Structures
Type: House of Worship
Status: Level II – Historical marker
Marker date: 1939
Installed by: Historical Research and Markers Committee
Marker text:
CHURCH OF STA. MARIA
THE TOWN OF STA. MARIA DE CABOAN WAS FOUNDED IN 1602 AND CALLED SAN MIGUEL TILL 1613. ITS FIRST MINISTER WAS THE REV. ANTONIO DE LA LLAVE. A CHURCH, BUILT IN 1613 BY THE REV. GERONIMO VASQUEZ, WAS DESTROYED IN THE CHINESE UPRISING OF 1639. ANOTHER CHURCH COMPLETED IN 1669, SUCCUMED TO EARTHQUAKES IN 1880. IN 1891 THE REV. LEOPOLDO ARELLANO RE-ERECTED THE CHURCH, BUT IT WAS DESTROYED BY THE EARTHQUAKE OF AUGUST 20, 1937.
