In 1717, Baclayon was finally created as the Parish of the Immaculate Concepcion and the present church totally finished in 1727. The parish acquired a big bell in 1835. Its antiquity is written in its high altar and upon the painting in the ceilings.
Beside the church is a museum that houses centuries-old religious relics and other antiquities. One can find a statue of the Blessed Virgin (said to be given by the Queen Catherine of Aragon),an ivory statue of the crucified Christ looking heavenward, relics of famous saints like St. Ignatius of Loyola, old vestments embroidered in gold thread, mass songs written in sheepskin and books with covers made of carabao skin.
With a monastery type building, the Baclayon church has an eerie dungeon reserved for natives who violated the Roman Catholics Laws - a concrete evidence of the extreme measures of discipline imposed upon the natives in order to suppress their supposedly pagan ways of living.
Baclayon Church background info courtesy of Bohol Tourism.
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