National Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes

The National Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes is a Roman Catholic national holy place in Quezon City, Philippines. The congregation is under the care of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin of the Philippine Ecclesiastical Province and under the Vicariate of San Pedro Bautista of the Diocese of Cubao. The first church, similar to the Santo Domingo Church, was situated in Intramuros until the point when it was obliterated amid World War II. Nonetheless, the two pictures of Our Lady of Lourdes separately were covered up and saved amid the shelling. The two pictures stand today in the present church at Quezon City.

The present church was finished and introduced in 1951. On 1997, it was pronounced as a national sanctuary by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines. Devoted to Our Lady of Lourdes, the congregation praises its devour or party on February 11, the commemoration of the primary specter in Lourdes, France. Eleven preachers from Spain landed in Manila on May 13, 1886 and remained with the Franciscans in Intramuros. Six of the ministers left while the staying five kept on giving the profound needs of the region until the point that they fabricated the primary Capuchin house in Gen Luna Street in Intramuros, Manila.