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Paco Catholic School
Paco Catholic School is a co-institutional private school located in the district of Paco in the City of Manila, Philippines. Paco Catholic school started in November, 1912 as an informal class for 50 young boys inside the chapel in the Peñafrancia section of the district by Raymond Esquinet, CICM, who was succeeded by Fr. Godofredo Aldenhuijsen, CICM. On May 14, 2022, in the 325th anniversary of the arrival of the Peñafrancia image in Manila and the 70th anniversary of the Parish, Jose Advincula solemnly declared the Paco Chapel, the same site of PCS, now Parish Church, the Archdiocesan Shrine of Our Lady of Peñafrancia.
The school moved to a wooden structure in Trece de Agosto Street, Paco, where it still stands. It is the largest parochial school in the Philippines and now serving approximately 5,000 students.
It actively participates, and sometimes host, many inter-school competitions. Students from the grade school department were the grand champion in the Junior Pinoy Henyo.
As early as 1580, the early Franciscan missionaries founded the town of Dilao (now known as Paco), located on the left side of the Pasig River, bounded by Pandacan on the North, Santa Ana on the East Southeast, Malate on the South and Ermita on the West. Ten years later, Parroquia de Dilao was established with Juan de Pama as its first parish priest.
In 1762 the parish was relocated near the Pasig River and years later, the Franciscan Superior Governor incorporated the two smaller towns of Santiago and Peña de Francia (Peñafrancia) with the existing parish. The expanded parish was then transferred where the present Peñafrancia church now stands. Finally, the Franciscan Superior Governor ordered that the new town be called San Fernando De Dilao.
Fernando de la Concepcion Perdigon who was appointed parish priest in 1809 then started the construction of a concrete church which was completed in 1814.
After the Spanish Franciscans left in 1900 the Archdiocese of Manila entrusted the parish to the Belgian Scheut Missionaries popularly known as the CICM (Congregatio Immaculati Cordis Mariae) otherwise known as the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary that managed the parish from F70060 to 1984.
Raymond Esquenet was the first CICM to be appointed parish priest of Paco by the Belgian Superior of the Order. He took over the management of the parish in October 1908 with Maurice Lefebvre as his assistant. Since the last Spanish-built church in the present site was destroyed and completely burned during the Spanish–American War in February 1899, the parishioners had to go to a small chapel in the corner of J. Zamora and Canonigo streets (now Quirino Avenue Extension) for church services for the next nine years.
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Paco Catholic School
Paco Catholic School is a co-institutional private school located in the district of Paco in the City of Manila, Philippines. Paco Catholic school started in November, 1912 as an informal class for 50 young boys inside the chapel in the Peñafrancia section of the district by Raymond Esquinet, CICM, who was succeeded by Fr. Godofredo Aldenhuijsen, CICM. On May 14, 2022, in the 325th anniversary of the arrival of the Peñafrancia image in Manila and the 70th anniversary of the Parish, Jose Advincula solemnly declared the Paco Chapel, the same site of PCS, now Parish Church, the Archdiocesan Shrine of Our Lady of Peñafrancia.
The school moved to a wooden structure in Trece de Agosto Street, Paco, where it still stands. It is the largest parochial school in the Philippines and now serving approximately 5,000 students.
It actively participates, and sometimes host, many inter-school competitions. Students from the grade school department were the grand champion in the Junior Pinoy Henyo.
As early as 1580, the early Franciscan missionaries founded the town of Dilao (now known as Paco), located on the left side of the Pasig River, bounded by Pandacan on the North, Santa Ana on the East Southeast, Malate on the South and Ermita on the West. Ten years later, Parroquia de Dilao was established with Juan de Pama as its first parish priest.
In 1762 the parish was relocated near the Pasig River and years later, the Franciscan Superior Governor incorporated the two smaller towns of Santiago and Peña de Francia (Peñafrancia) with the existing parish. The expanded parish was then transferred where the present Peñafrancia church now stands. Finally, the Franciscan Superior Governor ordered that the new town be called San Fernando De Dilao.
Fernando de la Concepcion Perdigon who was appointed parish priest in 1809 then started the construction of a concrete church which was completed in 1814.
After the Spanish Franciscans left in 1900 the Archdiocese of Manila entrusted the parish to the Belgian Scheut Missionaries popularly known as the CICM (Congregatio Immaculati Cordis Mariae) otherwise known as the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary that managed the parish from F70060 to 1984.
Raymond Esquenet was the first CICM to be appointed parish priest of Paco by the Belgian Superior of the Order. He took over the management of the parish in October 1908 with Maurice Lefebvre as his assistant. Since the last Spanish-built church in the present site was destroyed and completely burned during the Spanish–American War in February 1899, the parishioners had to go to a small chapel in the corner of J. Zamora and Canonigo streets (now Quirino Avenue Extension) for church services for the next nine years.