St. John the Baptist Church in San Juan
August 27th, 2008 -- Posted in Churches, Historical Sites, Ilocos Sur, Wars | No Comments »
St. John the Baptist Church was constructed in 1799 through voluntary labor from residents and it is “home” to the predominantly Catholic Lapogueños. This is where scores of Lapogueños were held hostages by the Japanese forces during the Second World War. Japanese soldiers detained the people inside the church and threatened to bomb the place if nobody would reveal the burial site of a comrade. The people were spared by the valiant Constante Castro who led the Japanese to the burial site.
