iglesia catolica El calvario

Nice

It is a church with a beautiful architecture and is in front of a small park where you can enjoy a good time with the family.

PARISH CHURCH EL CALVARIO DE USULUTÁN The history goes back to the year 1922 when Fray Escurra erected the El Calvario temple, in an area still not very inhabited, being a place of zacatales and the one that arrived by means of paths. For that time Fray Escurra left in procession through the streets next to the place, at 5 o'clock in the morning calling people to attend mass shouting "Christians to mass, the Lord calls them". Nearby people describe the place as dusty and cobbled streets, as much as the church was made of wood and plates, as well as in front of it a large cross near a huge ceibo tree which was known as "The Cross of Forgiveness". Then I spend a lot of time without that religious cult, but from time to time they came to celebrate the Eucharistic sacrifice, even though the church was only open for the week, since it had always been the last station of the Via Crucis. For the year 1942 a group of collaborators led by Mr. Guillermo Thompson, Mayor of the city of that time, gave place to manage and carry out activities in order to build a church that would be available to the Catholic congregation of that same place. The church was an easy target and was taken as a point of concentration in the wars at different times and damaged or almost destroyed at other times, leaving marks and very bad memories to the parishioners. For the year 1959, the time of Pope John XXIII and by order of the Lord Bishop of Santiago de María Monsignor Francisco José Castro and Ramírez, he thought of giving activity to the temple and sent Father Carlos Aguirre Panameño to celebrate mass every Sunday, until the 5th. February 1960, the eve of the centenary of Usulután, Monsignor Castro and Ramírez, wanted to leave as a souvenir a parish more in Usulután, since the only Church that at that time was Saint Catherine of Alexandria, and because of the excessive number of faithful, it was no longer possible to be attended by a single parish priest and the new parish was erected under the title of "Jesus Captive" elevating it to the category of "Parochial Church" enjoying all the privileges and exemptions that by right they understand, dismembering it from the current parish of Usulután. For that same year, exactly on February 29; the Reverend Father Dr. Ruperto Ruiz Orellana, takes possession of the parish. Those who have nowhere to live, start by renting rooms in different places, until with the collaboration of the neighbors they buy the land where the parish convent of that year was at that time. The church had remained neglected, which is why it was a dirty place and where all kinds of animals lived: bats, owls, pigeons and even spiders, causing bad smell and presentation. Father Ruperto begins to sow ground with his preaching, administering the sacraments of the church and was for 22 years at the head of the parish until he died on March 3, 1982, after having suffered a serious mishap during the war while officiating a Mass, which is why he was emotionally damaged. Father Ruperto died, El Calvario Parish is attended by Father René Rivera, vicar general of the diocese and who begins to heal the wounds left by the violence in the temple. After a few months and an excellent job by Father René Rivera, Father Carlos Aguirre Panameño was appointed on November 10, 1982, who continued with the reconstruction of the parish, changing sheets that had been damaged with so much projectile and getting new banks to change also the damaged and managed by committees formed by the residents of the neighborhood.

The bad smell

Cute