The Church of St. Mary

One thing that sets Sagada from the rest of the Philippines, is that among the Christian cities in the country, Sagada is the only one which is predominantly Episcopalian. The entire Philippines is predominantly Catholic but somehow Sagada managed to be different. As is happened, the missionaries of the Spanish colonizers never got to Sagada, while the next colonizers of the country, the Americans, also brought their own missionaries and these missionaries managed to make their way to Sagada.
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