From the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, I  moved on to my next destination, travelling some distance (via EDSA, making a U-turn via the cloverleaf then turning right at Bernardino St.) to get to the Church of Our Lady of Grace.  Similarly, like at the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, a wedding was ongoing when I arrived.  This church, founded as an Augustinian mission in 1601, was completed in 1629, damaged during the 1658 earthquake, repaired from 1659 to 1662 by Fr. Alonso Quijano and again in 1706 by Fr. Juan Olarte.  It was ransacked and occupied by the British in 1762 (they made it into their headquarters) and its roof collapsed during the July 19, 1880 earthquake. 

Church of Our Lady of Grace

The church was rebuilt between 1881 and 1885 by Fr. Jose Corrugedo, served as an orphanage and trade school for victims of the 1882 cholera epidemic and was burned down  in 1898 and 1899 when Filipino revolutionaries, and later the Americans, occupied it.  During World War II, it was used as a garrison and headquarters of the Japanese.  The church was rebuilt after an agreement forged on June 29, 1970 between Cardinal Rufino J. Santos and Fr. Casimiro Garcia, O.S.A., Augustinian Vicar in the country. 

The church’s interior