CITY OF SAN FERNANDO –- Vice Mayor Jimmy Lazatin hailed the inclusion of the Metropolitan Cathedral of San Fernando into the city’s list of cultural properties of utmost significance to the city’s history and culture.

Lazatin said that the City Government of San Fernando deemed it fit to include the Metropolitan Cathedral in its Local Registry of Cultural properties and install a city heritage marker for its historical significance.

“We did so, in order to preserve its architectural beauty and historical significance for the next generation,” Lazatin added.

He added that the Cathedral has played an important role in the spiritual growth of the Fernandinos through the years.

“The [cathedral] grew with Fernandinos in Sunday masses, Christmas and during their birthdays. Because of that, they [Fernandinos] became upright and good,” Lazatin said.

The 2018 Seal of Good Local Governance: “Pagkilala sa Katapatan at kahusayan ng pamahalaang lokal” requires under essential areas, tourism, culture and the arts, cultural heritage promotion and conservation, the conduct of cultural property inventory among others.

Thus, the unveiling of the Metropolitan Cathedral City heritage marker falls under the cultural property inventory.

“What we did was an overt act of giving importance to the past, of our heritage as it form parts and parcel of who we are now, Fernandinos,” Lazatin said.

The unveiling of the marker was attended by Mayor Edwin Santiago and other local government officials with the Rector of the Metropolitan Cathedral Msgr. Eugene Reyes.