page_title: Saint Augustine Parish Church (Baliuag)
section_title: Restoration
hierarchical_section_title: Saint Augustine Parish Church (Baliuag) / History / Restoration
caption_attribution_description: English: 1733 St. Augustine Parish Church of Baliuag (Saint Agustin of Hippo Parish Church)[1][2][3]Baliuag, Bulacan[4]
context_page_description: The Saint Augustine Parish Church of Baliuag, commonly known as Baliuag Church, is a Roman Catholic church located in Plaza Naning at the poblacion of Baliuag, in Bulacan province, Philippines. The church is a parish church of the Diocese of Malolos, which is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Manila.
  The parish was established by the Augustinians in 1733 under the patronage of Saint Augustine of Hippo. The town's feast is celebrated every second Sunday of May. During the church's Great Jubilee celebration in the year 2000, the Diocese of Malolos designated the Baliuag Church as one of the 11 pilgrimage churches in the province of Bulacan. in 2015, the Diocese of Malolos designated again the Baliuag Church as one of the Jubilee of Mercy churches in the province of Bulacan for the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy by Pope Francis which ends on 20 November 2016.
  The Good Friday procession of the church is one of the largest in the country with more than 100 religious floats of sceneries showing the stories from the book of the evangelists from the new Testament and Lenten scenes paraded.
  The present parish priest of Baliuag Church is Rev. Msgr. Andres S.
context_section_description: The Baliuag Church underwent several rehabilitation. The first was during the term of Fr. Amado Paulino.  His engineer, Bert Iral did the face lift, restored the rectory and the main building including the addition of the marble slabs for the departed. He also built the tall portico that is supported by two sturdy columns at the main door entrance. A small cupola was placed on top of the belfry for four giant trumpet loudspeakers.
  For the 1972 town fiesta, the "Silungan" (canopy) was restored.  In 1979, the towering marble relief of Moses holding The Ten Commandments was added to the Church. It was unveiled and blessed on March 7, 1983 as a gift of the Town Fiesta Executive Committee under Bishop Leopoldo Arcaira, the Auxiliary Bishop of Malolos at that time in Baliuag.
  The convent refectory including the facade were restored in 1993 to its old Spanish colonial look in time for the town fiesta.  The St. Francis of Assisi statue and the St. Augustine Multi-Purpose Parish Hall were added.
  The Balibuntal Club '94 and Parish Pastoral Council (Sangguniang Pastoral) helped built the “Galeria San Agustin”, the church museum, so that visitors can appreciate the church's treasuries and history.  It was finished on May 28, 1994 by Rodrigo S. Ligon and Menchie P. Martinez.  The Knights of Columbus, Mother Butler's Guild (Mother Marie Joseph Butler), the Adoration Chapel, and many other Parish Offices were later added to serve the religious needs of the parishioners.
  Msgr. Feliciano M. Palma Jr., P.A., V.G., the parish priest of San Agustin Church from 1987-2001, did the major rebuilding of the Church from 1996-1998 after it had been invaded by termites since 1990. Palma mobilized Lito Tengco's SACOY to fund the restoration under Administrator Joel Pascual.  The August 27, 1996 Telethon-Concert dubbed as "Ang Lahat ng ito'y para sa'yo Panginoon" resulted the  inflow of PHP 2 million donations. The second concert on August 8, 1997, "Sa iyo lamang, Panginoon, Salamat" raised PHP 1 million resulting in the solemn inauguration of the Church on August 28, 1998 amid the full restoration amount of PHP 7,106,399 spent.  Tats Villanueva added ceiling and dome paintings.
  The altar of the Immaculate Concepcion at the church patio was erected on May 7, 2003 by the St. Augustine Charity Clinic.
  And in 24 April 2017, Commemoration of the Conversion of Saint Augustine, under the incumbency of the present parish priest, Msgr. Andres S. Valera, SLL, the newly restored Church was dedicated and consecrated in a mass presided by His Eminence Orlando Beltran Cardinal Quevedo, O.M.I., D.D., Archbishop of Cotabato and Cardinal Priest of Santa Maria Regina Mundi a Torre Spaca with concelebrating bishops, Archbishop Rolando Tria Tirona O.C.D., D.D. of Nueva Caceres who previously served as the third Bishop of Malolos, Bishop Honesto Ongtioco D.D. of Cubao and the late Bishop Jose Oliveros D.D. of Malolos and other concelebrating priests.
  On 23 August 2019, Feast of St. Rose of Lima, They unveil the marker "Pastores de Baliuag", The list of the Recent Parish Priests of the Parish from 1733 up to present. It was unveiled with the presence of Rev. Msgr. Andres S. Valera, Fr. Joseph Franz Dizon and Fr. Edgardo Toribio J.R.. Also, Msgr. Andy bless the Hall of Parish Priest that contains the drawing of the recent Parish Priests.
caption: The church portico added during the curacy of Fr. Amado Paulino.
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