Buried but not quite by Mt. Pinatubo’s eruption: Bacolor Church and its story of survival | Pampanga
Years after its 1991 eruption, the wrath of Mount Pinatubo continued to be felt. Case in point is the San Guillermo Parish Church in Bacolor, Pampanga. On September 3, 1995, after days of torrential rains, a raging lahar flow from the slopes of the previously thought dormant volcano buried the town about half a dozen meters deep.
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Only half of the church remains unburied by the lahar flow |