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Not all churches will be restored

Tagbilaran City - “ I can accept the idea that maybe a few of these churches might just be left ruins,
never to be rebuilt,” Bishop Leonardo Medroso, head of the Diocese of Tagbilaran, said. “But others
are going to be restored.”

It has been almost a year since the so called Great Eastern Bohol Earthquake damaged many churches
in Medroso’s diocese and already he is overseeing the construction of alternate churches beside the
ruins of what were once considered jewels of Spanish missionary architecture in Bohol provinces.

Twenty five of the province’s churches – 10 of them built by Jesuit and Recollect missionaries during
the Spanish period – were either destroyed or suffered varying degrees of damage.

Priceless objects and artifacts in the parish museums of Loboc and Maribojoc towns were not spared.

Nearby Cebu Island fared a little better, as only eight churches were damage, the worst being damage
to the belfry of Basilica Minore del Sto. Niño, which was dramatically shown on social media.

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