The Immaculate Conception Parish Church, also known as the Dasmariñas Church, is first Catholic parish church in the city of Dasmariñas in the province of Cavite, Philippines. The stone church was constructed right after the establishment of Dasmariñas as a separate parish in 1866. The church and convent was the site of bloodshed during the Philippine revolution against Spain. It was declared as an important historical structure by the National Historical Institute of the Philippines with the placing of a historical marker in 1986. The parish of Dasmariñas, then known as Perez-Dasmariñas, started as a chapel of parish of Imus, its former mother town, during the Spanish colonial period. Perez-Dasmariñas then was a barrio and part of the Hacienda de Imus (Imus Estate) owned and administered by the Augustinian Recollects. After the establishment of Perez-Dasmariñas as a politically separate town on May 12, 1864, a petition was sent to Madrid by the Recollects for the creation of a new parish for the sake of the people of a growing town and for the their own interests. Hence, on October 21, 1866, Her Most Catholic Majesty Queen Isabella II signed the Royal Order creating the new parish of Perez-Dasmariñas. The Royal Order states: Her Majesty, the Queen, conceded to approve by a Royal Order last October 21, 1866, the erection of a new parish in the new town of Perez-Dasmariñas, independent from Imus, its origin, in the province of Cavite. With previous instructions from the proceedings where the interested parties were and for reason of convenience and need that the said town should constitute an independent parish...with the use of all corresponding authority because of its sacredness and furthermore, in accordance with the Council of Trent, Chapter IV Section XXIV about Reformation which is in accord with Law No. XXX first book on Recopilacion de las Indias, we have established jurisdiction separate from Imus, her origin. The limits of this new parish shall be Religious Order of the Augustinian Recollect Fathers.[1] However, Royal Orders took some time before it reached the Islands and its actual implementation did not start till the following year, 1867. The new parish of Perez-Dasmariñas was placed under the patronage of the Virgin Mary as Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception with the Archbishop of Manila and the Recollect Prior Provincial as its main proponents. The same year, Recollect Fr. Valentin Diaz, ORSA was installed as the first parish priest of Perez-Dasmariñas. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immaculate_Conception_Parish_Church_of_Dasmari%C3%B1as
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