My father who was the head of Civil Construction of this company together with Ade de Bethune, a Belgian-born American artist and liturgical art expert of Newport, Rhode Island built this chapel in 1948. This chapel has become a landmark in the history of liturgical art because of its modernism. The mosaic decorations on the outside of the chapel were made of broken pieces of plates & bottles (coca cola, milk of magnesia, beer and whisky) which the mill site community contributed. The mosaic figures have a Filipino folk-art quality.The religious images are brown skinned and wearing Filipino clothes: Virgin Mary in saya & St. Joseph in barong. The artistic elements that have made this small chapel world-famous (it has been featured in Life, Liturgical Art and Progressive Architecture among others) retain their iconographic power and splendor of form. It shocked the sensibility of the average churchgoer long accustomed to the religious images found in Philippines churches, which on the whole are conservatively bland.

This is where I was baptized and where beautiful memories of my childhood days were created.

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