Santa Maria Church or Nuestra Señora de los Angeles Parish Church ( also '' Our Lady of Angels Parish Church '' ) is the only Roman Catholic church in the municipality of Santa Maria , Laguna , Philippines under the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Pablo . Its titular is the Our Lady of Angels whose feast is celebrated every August 2 . Sta. Maria was formerly a part of Morong ( now Rizal ) as a small village called Caboan . Father Antonio de la Llave was assigned as the first parish priest of Caboan . In 1602 , the small village was converted into a town and renamed '' San Miguel de Caboan '' under the patronage of Saint Michael , the Archangel . Father Geronimo Vasquez built the stone church on the exact spot where the image of the Virgin Mary was found by a Caboan couple according to legend in 1613 . Since then , the town was named '' Santa María de Caboan '' or simply Sta. Maria . The church was destroyed by the 1639 Chinese uprising and was rebuilt in 1669 by Father José de Jesus María , as well as the rectory . Like the other churches in Laguna , the church of Santa Maria was heavily damaged in the 1880 Luzon earthquakes . It was rebuilt by Father Leopoldo Arellano in 1891 . The facade of the church is still surviving at present . The church was again partly destroyed during the earthquake of August 20 , 1937 , but was not reconstructed until after the Liberation in 1945
1880 Luzon earthquakes
1880 Luzon earthquakes
Nuestra Señora de los Angeles Parish Church (Santa Maria)