Our Lady of the Abandoned Parish Church

The Diocesan Shrine and Parish of Our Lady of the Abandoned is a Roman Catholic church in Marikina, the Philippines. The church enshrines certainly one of numerous photos of the Virgin Mary commemorated as striking, which has obtained Papal reputation. The church itself is a testomony of a non secular controversy rooting returned from Marikina's early records wherein both the Jesuits and Augustinians fought over the ecclesiastical manage of the vicinity.

Catholicism in what is now Marikina commenced while the agreement was again ceded to the Augustinians by means of the Jesuits. On March 10, 1687, Governor Gabriel Cruz Elasque ordered the switch of Marikina to the oversight of the Augustinians and merged with the ministry of San Mateo. He instructed Don Juan Pimentel, the Mayor of Tondo, to vacate and demolish the visita of Jesús de la Pena as the Marikina River might flood the site at some point of the rainy season. The visita could not accommodate the growing congregation, forcing the Austin friars to switch operations across the Marikina to higher ground, where the plenty larger, present shape become built. The church changed into eventually made an independent parish in 1690.