TY - ADVS ED - Ayala Museum Research Team TI - Bala-an Bukid Chapel KW - Catholic churches KW - Guimaras Island KW - bondolan point KW - iloilo KW - ledesma KW - lopez N1 - On the highest elevation of Bondolan point, a chapel was erected in honor of the Blessed Mother during the Marian year of 1954 by a few members of the Ledesma-Lopez family who survived the Second World War. The chapel overlooks the whole of Guimaras island and the southeastern coast of Panay. Photo shows the strait of Iloilo in the background and farther to the right (faintly seen) the shores of Villa Arevalo and Oton, the supply base of Spanish expeditions to the south and the Moluccas. Somewhere in this vicinity an English merchant vessel was sunk in 1900; With prints UR - http://retrato.com.ph/retratoimages/Midsize/CH/CH04339a.jpg UR - http://retrato.com.ph/retratoimages/Thumb/CH/CH04339a.jpg UR - http://www.retrato.com.ph/photodtl.asp?id=CH04339 ER -