Agoo Minor Basilica in La Union | Philippines Beautiful Places | Santa Monica Church | Eneris World

Agoo Minor Basilica in La Union | Philippines Beautiful Places | Santa Monica Church | Eneris World

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Agoo Basilica

The parish was founded in 1578 by Franciscan friars John Baptist Lucarelli of Pesaro, Italy, and Sebastián de San Francisco of Baesa, Spain. The original church was constructed with native materials, nipa and bamboo (in Barangay Nagreban or Nagrugcan) under its patron saint Francis of Assisi. In 1598, Saturmino Franco, Casimiro Melgosa and Aquilino García finished a three-tiered bell tower for the church. In the same year, the Augustinians named Saint Monica as the town’s new patron saint.

On March 16, 1892, a massive earthquake destroyed the church, paving the way for reconstruction of the shrine of “Nuestra Señora de Caridad” in 1893. It was later demolished and replaced with the present church in 1975.