Kapampangan sculptor to install altar in Rome

GUAGUA, Pampanga — Willy Layug, Presidential Merit Awardee for Ecclesiastical Art, is set to donate and install a Filipiniana altar dedicated to Filipino St. Lorenzo Ruiz and Blessed Pedro Calungsod at the prestigious Pontificio Collegio Filippino in Rome, Italy.
Layug will be the first Kapampangan to install his work at the Pontificio Collegio Filippino, sharing the same stage with classical masters whose works adorn major churches and shrines in Roman Catholic churches a few blocks away.

PAMPANGA. Sculptor Willy Layug shows his design of the altar dedicated to San Lorenzo Luiz and Blessed Pedro Calungsod which he will install in Rome. (Ian Ocampo Flora)
“The altar will be 10 feet by 10 feet and would be dominated by sawali and bamboo designs to show the unique Filipino character of the altar. Though we are greatly influenced by European wood carving designs, the altar would still show the Filipino wood carving character,” Layug said.
Layug said he presented the design of the altar to the current rector of Pontificio Collegio Filippino, Rev. Father Gregory Ramon Gaston. The altar will depict the martyrdom of St. Lorenzo Ruiz and Blessed Pedro Calungsod.
Pontificio Collegio Filippino is the college of Filipino diocesan priests studying at pontifical universities in Rome. It was formally established as an institution with pontifical rights by Pope Blessed John XXIII on June 29, 1961 through the Papal Bull Sancta Mater Ecclesia.
Also known as Pontificio Collegio Seminario Filippino, the college is officially named by the papal bull as Pontificio Collegio Seminario de Nuestra Señora de la Paz y Buen Viaje.
The seat of the institution is located at 490 Via Aurelia in the suburb of Rome where a four-storey structure designed by Edoardo Cherubini and done in the contemporary architectural design of the 1960s stands on a 238,933.44-square-meter property between the Collegio Pio Brasiliano and the Villa Pacelli.
Cardinal Rufino Jiao Santos proposed establishing the college during the meeting of the Catholic Hierarchy of the Philippines on January 26–31 1959. His plan was supported by the Philippine ecclesiastical hierarchy and approved by the Vatican.
Pope John XXIII inaugurated the modern edifice on October 7, 1961 at the Feast of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary. As of the year 2001, Pontificio Collegio Filippino has been a home to 522 seminarians and priests, 38 of who have become bishops.
Layug said the altar will add to the unique history of the place. Works on the said altar are now ongoing at Layug’s shop here.
Published in the Sun.Star Pampanga newspaper on May 09, 2012.
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/pampanga/local-news/2012/05/08/kapampangan-sculptor-install-altar-rome-220485

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