Documents on the Parian and the Building of Its Church in The 18th Century

Much has been written about the Parian, the Chinese district outside the walls of Manila. Few archival sources have been consulted, where they can be located. Some materials have been cited from microfilm copies at the Archivo de la Universidad de Santo Tomás in Manila. For the present issue, we present transcriptions of selected documents on the Parian still conserved at the Archivo de la Provincia del Santo Rosario in the Santuario de Santo Cristo in San Juan City, Metro Manila. The first is a history of the Parian written in 1847 by its then parish priest, Dominican historian and later bishop of Nueva Cáceres, Father Francisco Gainza. This is followed by four documents related to the construction of the church of the Santos Reyes in Parian, a project that began in 1729 and ended in 1740

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