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While the common folk flock to the Apu chapel in the Dayrit estate every Friday, the city’s high and mighty attend the annual Apu Fiesta procession sponored by the parish every last week of October. This 1958 photo shows former mayors (left to right) Rafael Lazatin, Francisco Nepomuceno, Juan D. Nepomuceno and Eugenio Suarez with parish priest Fr. Vicente Coronel, right behind the carroza bearing the “official” Apung Mamacalulu image. the plaintiff to recover of the defendants the image and carriage which are the subject of this action; and a writ for the delivery of the same to the plaintiff will accordingly issue from this court in due course. So ordered, without costs. Two Apu Images As a result of the 1929 decision, the defendants Navarro et al, delivered the image to the parish priest of Angeles, the latter acting for the interest of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Manila [ Pampanga became a diocese only in 1948.] For many years after the 1928 incident, the issue of the image became the source of friction between the Dayrits and the Angeles parish priests. While the original image was apparently returned to the parish church, an identical image surfaced at the chapel in the Dayrits’ estate about the same time. Devotees remained with the Dayrits’ image, in fact increasing in number until the shrine’s popularity reached cult proportions. The two images were taken out in separate processions, and on two occasions even simulatenously. But the Dayrits’ processions enjoyed more following. Several prewar correspondences between the Archbishop of Manila and Don Clemente Dayrit show that requests for Masses in the Apu chapel owned by the Dayrits were all denied. Later, it was the matter of accounting the donations to Apu that became a major issue. The persistent talk in town then was that the Church was interested in Apu because it was drawing a 96 big crowd of devotees on Fridays and that the chapel was receiving huge amounts of alms. The money issue became more heated when the Dayrits began leasing their lands and nearby alleys to transient vendors who started making good business on the Apu premises in the 1970s. Through the years, the Dayrits managed to have Masses said in the sanctuario sans permit, by priests from faraway stations, and even by non-Catholic priests. To avoid further problems, Fr. Aquilino Ordonez, then Angeles parish priest, brokered negotiations with the Dayrit family and then San Fernando Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz. He thought that the best solution was for the family to sell the chapel to the Church so that it may attain full canonical recognition and thereby become a seemly venue for Apu devotees. Talks failed and no agreement was reached. Even long after the sensational Supreme Court case, the story about the second image just refuses to die. The authenticity of the image surrendered to the Angeles Parish Church following the court order began to be doubted when rumors spread that right after the court handed the 1929 decision, the disputed image was sent to Paete, Laguna, a town renowned for its carvers, presumably to have a copy of it made. Many also believe that neither the image in the left niche of the pisambang maragul (parish church) nor the image enthroned on the altar of the Dayrit owned sanctuario at barrio Lourdes Sur is the original Apu. So if indeed the original image, subject of the 1929 suit, was not the one surrendered by the Dayrits to the then Angeles parish priest, and the one in the Dayrits’ chapel is also a replica, then where is the real image snatched by Navarro and company way back in 1928? This remains a mystery. The only picture which could lead us back to the original image is a pre-1928 crude print of the Apu lying in the altar on its side chapel at the pisambang maragul. No doubt this is a picture of the original for this was taken from the old house of recamadero Eriberto Navarro. Eriberto Navarro married Paula Tuazon, and lived along Alvara Fajardo Street in barrio Salapungan. Eriberto died in the late 1950s, without siring any son. His descendants relate several stories about the Apu and its miraculous powers. There were times, they say, that it refused to be carried, that even six men could not move it. But when Apung Mentu (as Eriberto was popularly called) came, he could carry the image by himself. The office of recamadero was eventually turned over to his nephew Santiago Julian, who performed the office until his death in the late 1970s. The office was later delegated to the househelps of the Dayrits and some of the children. Several persons privy to the Dayrits’ secrets claim that the original image is placed in this underground room of the old Dayrit mansion. One of them even remembers having seen the image in an underground room in the late 1960’s. The image was much darker than the one found in the sanctuario; it was encased in a plain urn. There was some talk later that the image had already been spirited away to the United States by one of the Dayrit daughters. Apu is nowadays known by younger Angeleños as more of a place to shop for great bargains than as a miraculous, if controversial, image. Apu has somewhat morphed from a little makeshift sanctuario to a local Quiapo. Old folks note that nowadays many people go to Apu not so much to pray as to buy a variety of goods at dirt cheáp prices. Over the years, Apu has acquired the hustle and bustle of Quiapo with its own share of snatchers and pickpockets and a motley Baclaran crowd of hawkers and bargain hunters. It has evolved from a shrine for the pious and desperate, into a shopping mecca of sorts.
Angeles celebrates not one, not two, but four fiestas every year: October 2 - calendared feast day of the Holy Guardian Angels, titular patron saints of Angeles; this was initially the official town fiesta, until La Naval gained popularity 2 nd Sunday of October – La Naval fiesta, to commemorate the naval victories of the Spanish colonial government against the invading Protestant Dutch; the victories are attributed to the intercession of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary, who is the patron saint of the town Founder’s wife, THE THE FOUR FOUR F I E S T A S OF OF ANGELES ANGELES Doña Rosalia de Jesus de Miranda; the first La Naval fiesta in Angeles was celebrated on October 10, 1830; thereafter, the town celebrated the feast of its titular patron saints, the Holy Guardian Angels, no longer on October 2 but on the Monday after the La Naval fiesta, to take advantage of the fact that the processional carrozas are still in the church and residents still have enough leftovers for another banquet Last Friday of October – Fiestang Apu, in celebration of Apung Mamacalulu, the Interred Christ (Our Lord of the Holy Sepulcher); the image was supposedly used only in Good Friday processions, but something happened in 1897 that established the Fiestang Apu in October, right after the La Naval fiesta: the town was caught in the crossfire between Cazadores and insurrectos, and the town officials asked the parish priest to hold a quinario (five-day continuous praying, to differentiate it from the novena, which is nine days) to honor the Five Wounds of Christ and ask Him to save the town from further disaster; on the second day of said quinario, a prisoner of war named Roman Payumu from barrio Capaya es- caped execution after praying to the image of Apung Mamacalulu; this incident further popularized the devotion to the image; in 1928, another incident (the “kidnapping” of the original image and subsequent lawsuit) transferred the site of popular devotion from the parish church to the Dayrits’ chapel in Brgy. Lourdes. December 8 - foundation day of Angeles; it was on this day in 1829 when Culiat was separated from its matrix, San Fernando 97
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