HISTORICAL PLACES

    Every place has its own history. Sometimes, we don’t notice that the place we are passing by, we ignoring and we are going to is a historical place like the cave in Brgy. San Francisco, Intramurous in Immaculate and the church located at Brgy. Zone 5 that many generations used to lived with for almost hundred years without  knowing that it has a sentimental value and importance that without historical places, the Brgy.  itself is nothing and plane.        

Intramurous in Immaculate Sbdv.(Banuang Daan)

This historical wall is a memory left during Spanish regime wherein it is said to be a church before and it was called intramurous. But other citizens of the place said that it became cemetery because according to them there were pieces of skeleton inside a coffin and a tomb.

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As a proof we asked Lola Digna, a citizen who lives there for a long period of time,  according to the stories shared to her by her grandfather ,the church was one of the oldest churches built in the province of Sorsogon. 

CATHOLIC CHURCH IN BULAN SORSOGON

The Catholic Church: 1569, when the first mass in Luzon was celebrated at Otavi.  In 1640, Gate became a “Visita of Bulusan, and was established a separate parish 1690, In 1746, the church in Gate was destroyed by the Moros. The Bulusan Parish was later re-established in 1799. 

The first feast day of Our Lady of Immacuate Conception Parish way held on December 8, 1801. In 1806 the Church was transferred from Banuang Daan to its present location. There are two other parishes in Bulan: the Vicariate of Saint Bonaventure in Butag and the Vicariate St. Anthony of Padua in San Francisco. The life of Bulaneños is diply intertwined with the Catholic Faith.       

 JAPANESE TUNNEL IN SAN FRANCISCO

Cave in Brgy. San Francisco specifically in Daan na Bisita is composed of 3 separate ways according to Mr. Julio Almenana, 73 years old and a resident of the Brgy. for almost 44 years.

And also that’s where the Japanese people stayed during their years here in Philippines, and some bombs were found and other materials used in the war in the cave.

The cave is wider before wherein big vehicles like Trucks can enter the tunnel, unlike now it is narrower because as time goes by, especially when rain occurs the soil near the cave fills over it.

                    

The Japanese tunnel was created 

back in World War II era supposedly by Filipino prisoners of war.  The purpose of the tunnel was to be a hideout not only for soldiers but also their belongings.  It has been said that many tunnels were actually dug back then during or soon after the United States took over 

 

February 2, 1997, a group of tourist with Japanese soldiers’ retired personnel visited Bulan to remember the death of their co-soldiers who died here during the war. Ricardo Loilo, a veteran of Japanese guerrilla revealed the location of the graves where the Japanese soldiers were buried in Barangay San Francisco, Bulan, Sorsogon.

The group of tourists also visited the Japanese War tunnel in Sitio Daan na Bisita. 

A chief of the Japanese soldiers were assigned in Sorsogon

Above are the two guerrillas namely Mr. Rizal Zuñiga and Mr. Ricardo Loilo