Intramuros Fort Santiago

What is Intramuros Fort Santiago?

Fort Santiago is one of the oldest fortifications in Manila built by the Spaniards in 1571 from what was once a palisaded structure of logs and earth built by Rajah Soliman on the native settlement called Maynila. The colonizers recognized that the tongue of land where the Pasig River flowed into the Manila Bay was a very strategic location.  The fort was destroyed in 1574 during the Chinese attack led by Limahong.  The stone fort was built between 1589 and 1592 and was repaired and extended after being damaged by the 1645 earthquake. Spanish, British, American and Japanese occupation forces used the fort as their headquarters and a prison for men, women, children and soldiers.  After its destruction during the Battle of Manila in 1945, the fort was used by the U.S. Transportation Corps as a depot until it was turned over to the Philippine government in 1946. In 1950, Fort Santiago was declared a Shrine of Freedom and restoration began the following year. Today, it stands as a memorial to the victims of World War II and the sacrifices of the Filipino people in pursuit of freedom.

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I will never forget that day. It was a very beautiful day. I went to see many things and learned about the history of Intramuros. My cousin and I were also with me when we toured Fort Santiago. And we went to another church in Manila; it is the Manila Cathedral Intramuros, a very beautiful church, and when we went there, we witnessed the nameron getting married, another rare

Another information of Manila Cathedral Church. In the Cathedral Church, the eighth of the Archdiocese of Manila famous by the name of Immaculate Conception, We ourselves were present during the month of February, walked through and honored with absolutely outstanding rite of beatification of the Martyr Lorenzo Ruiz We also, at that same times through our voice, as it were by an Oracle, declared it very worthy indeed, to be granted the honor and new liturgical splendor of Minor Basilica

And as to all requests, previously sent, according to law, both ng to the bishops Conference of the Philippines and to the Congregation for the sacraments and Divine Worship, having been in the meantime duly investigated and confirmed, as it behooves, We are already highly pleased, by this letter and by the plenitude of our Apostolic power to approve and pronounce, that the earlier mentioned building, consecrated to God for the veneration of the Blessed Virgin Mary, invoked under the title of Immaculate Conception, be legitimately elevated to the honor and dignity of Minor Basilica and henceforth be endowed with all the rights and privileges which befit temples decorated with this title.

We order however that careful consideration be given to whatever has to be observed according to the Decree "De Titulo Basilicae Minoris," edited on the 6th of June 1968 Whatsoever contrary notwithstanding.

Given in Rome, at St. Peter's with seal of the Fisherman's Rang, on th 27th day of April year 1981, the third of our Pontificate.

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Sed. Augustinus Card. Casaroli From the Public Affairs of the Church Office

 This is avery good event because I'm a wanderer, so this is a good event in my life, a good experience that happened to me. Thank you, and I came here to thank you.