St. Alphonsus Mary de Liguori Parish Church
Humabon Place, Magallanes Village, Makati City
Parish Priest: Monsignor Claro "Matt" Garcia
Landscape Architect: Cecile Herras Tence, PALA
Parish Priest: Monsignor Claro "Matt" Garcia
Landscape Architect: Cecile Herras Tence, PALA
At St. Alphonsus Mary de Liguori Parish Church, also known as Magallanes
Church, in Magallanes Village, Makati, one finds the Garden of the Way
of the Cross, designed by National
Artist for Architecture Ildefonso P. Santos during the tenure of
Monsignor Ernesto Cruz. Dedicated on Palm Sunday, March 24, 2002, the
garden contains 14 Stations of the Cross, each the work of a leading
sculptor such as Napoleon Abueva, Ramon Orlina, the Imao and Arcilla
brothers, or Solomon Saprid.
The goal of this present retrofit project is to protect the sculpture.
Glass canopies will shield them from rain and falling branches. A running stream, one meter wide, will separate the sculpture from a reaching hand, without blocking the view. A wall of black java will help secure the garden and minimize the noise coming from the highway, underscoring the goal of encouraging prayer and contemplation in this spiritual exercise originated by St. Alphonsus. New iron gates suggest welcoming hands, expressing the welcome that the parish extends to those who visit the garden as well as suggesting the acceptance and welcome with which Christ responds to His fate.
Landscape Architect Cecile Herras Tence assisted IP Santos with the project in 2002 and will restore the planting back to its original tropical lushness.
The goal of this present retrofit project is to protect the sculpture.
Glass canopies will shield them from rain and falling branches. A running stream, one meter wide, will separate the sculpture from a reaching hand, without blocking the view. A wall of black java will help secure the garden and minimize the noise coming from the highway, underscoring the goal of encouraging prayer and contemplation in this spiritual exercise originated by St. Alphonsus. New iron gates suggest welcoming hands, expressing the welcome that the parish extends to those who visit the garden as well as suggesting the acceptance and welcome with which Christ responds to His fate.
Landscape Architect Cecile Herras Tence assisted IP Santos with the project in 2002 and will restore the planting back to its original tropical lushness.
Station, and Sculptor
I. LAST SUPPER, by Napoleon
Abueva
II. AGONY IN
THE GARDEN, by Abdulmari
“Toym” Imao
III. JESUS IS
CONDEMNED, by Ros
Arcilla
IV. CROWNING
WITH THORNS, by Raphael
Arcilla
V. JESUS
CARRIES THE CROSS, by Tito
Sanchez
VI. JESUS FALLS, by Jose
Mendoza
VII. SIMON OF
CYRENE HELPS JESUS, by Ramon
Orlina
VIII. JESUS MEETS
THE WOMEN OF JERUSALEM, by Juan Sajid
IX. JESUS IS NAILED TO THE CROSS, by Francisco Verano
X. JESUS FORGIVES A THIEF AT THE CROSS, by Priscillano “Jun” Vicaldo Jr.
XI. MARY AND JOHN AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS, by Solomon Saprid
XII. JESUS DIES, by Eduardo Castrillo
XIII. JESUS IS LAID
IN THE TOMB, by Antonio
Mondejar
XIV. RESURRECTION, by Dominic Galicia
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