Nuestra Señora de los Angeles Parish Church (Santa Maria)
The Santa Maria Church or Nuestra Señora de los Angeles Parish Church (also "Our Lady of Angels Parish Church") is the only Roman Catholic church in the municipality of Santa Maria, Laguna, Philippines under the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Pablo. Its titular is the Our Lady of Angels whose feast is celebrated every August 2. Church history. Sta. Maria was formerly a part of Morong (now Rizal) as a small village called Caboan. Father Antonio de la Llave was assigned as the first parish priest of Caboan. In 1602, the  small village was converted into a town and renamed "San Miguel de Caboan "under the patronage of Saint Michael, the Archangel. Father Geronimo Vasquez built the stone church on the exact spot where the image of the Virgin Mary was found by a Caboan couple according to legend in 1613. Since then, the town was named "Santa María de Caboan" or simply Sta. Maria. The church was destroyed by the 1639 Chinese uprising and was rebuilt in 1669 by Father José de Jesus María, as well as the rectory. Like the other churches in Laguna, the church of Santa Maria  was heavily damaged in the 1880 Luzon earthquakes. It was rebuilt by Father Leopoldo Arellano in 1891. The facade of the church is still surviving at present. The church was again partly destroyed during the earthquake of August 20, 1937, but was not reconstructed until after the Liberation in 1945.