Mga koleksyon ng mga antigong santo at lumang gamit sa simbahan, silipin | Dapat Alam Mo! - video Dailymotion

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Aired (March 26, 2024): Bukod sa mga antique na aparador, pinggan at laruan, kinahiligan din ni Eddie Gamo ang pagkolekta ng mga lumang gamit sa simbahan at antigong santo. Silipin ‘yan sa video.

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00:00 Ma'am, Anjo, you know people have different tastes.

00:02 There's one who's always going out.

00:05 Who is that?

00:06 I don't know, it's like you're right.

00:07 You're right, it's summer time.

00:09 But there's also one who's just at home

00:10 and likes to collect random things.

00:14 You know what, Anjo?

00:15 People usually collect new things, right?

00:19 But there are also people who are waiting to get old

00:21 and buy things that don't seem to be profitable

00:25 even at an expensive price, like sato.

00:28 Tina Pangaliban Perez has this story.

00:31 Old pictures that are no longer noticed by most.

00:38 Things that seem to be decaying

00:41 and seem to be out of date.

00:43 Some of them are images of saints

00:46 that represent faith.

00:49 But when they are torn apart,

00:51 this is what the collector, Eddie, is waiting for.

00:55 (soft music)

00:58 Eddie's love for not just antique devices,

01:02 like CDs and toys.

01:05 His house is full of images of small and large saints

01:10 and old items from the Church.

01:13 After my mother passed away,

01:16 my father also liked to collect antique saints.

01:23 If I earn money, I will buy the things I want.

01:26 I will go around collecting them.

01:27 I bought the saints first

01:29 because I also like religious objects.

01:33 Eddie often searches for antique saints online.

01:37 He also visits old houses

01:41 to buy things there.

01:42 As time goes by,

01:43 you read and research.

01:46 My knowledge and the things I want expand.

01:50 The importance of antique images of saints is not simple.

01:54 In the retail, there are 1, 5, up to 6 digits.

02:00 There are large ones, 50 to 80.

02:03 There are also medium-sized or small ones.

02:07 They are more expensive, around 200 to 300.

02:11 It depends on the age,

02:13 the beauty of the saint,

02:16 the provenance, the origin.

02:19 And the material used.

02:22 Of course, the first thing I can afford is small,

02:25 the cheap ones.

02:26 Of course, when you have a budget,

02:29 you buy expensive and larger saints

02:32 because it also upgrades your passion or what you want.

02:36 Eddie has bought antique saints

02:39 that are without hands,

02:40 broken,

02:41 or damaged in painting and body.

02:44 But for Eddie,

02:45 this is what gives beauty to his collections.

02:50 The first thing I bought that is still with me,

02:53 Mother and Child.

02:55 Now, its wood is broken,

02:57 but it's still with me.

02:59 We restore the broken ones.

03:02 I let the others as is

03:06 because when it's antique,

03:07 it's not good to move it or restore it

03:10 because its value can be damaged.

03:13 And that's why you bought it when you first saw it.

03:15 The damage, the wear and tear of the item,

03:18 that's when you fall in love.

03:20 You should know that according to the Catholic Church,

03:23 the broken images of saints

03:25 need to be burned or buried

03:28 if it cannot be fixed

03:30 according to Fr. Francis Lucas.

03:33 All images,

03:34 as long as they are wet with holy water or blessed water,

03:38 it's sacred.

03:39 The best thing to do is

03:41 to burn it and bury the ashes

03:45 so that it can be quickly combined with the soil.

03:49 The best thing to do is to do it

03:52 in the compound of the Church

03:53 or in the Catholic cemeteries

03:56 because the Catholic cemeteries

03:58 have a lot of soil.

04:01 The images or sacramentals,

04:04 if we call them,

04:05 that are metal,

04:06 bury them.

04:08 Eddie's faith became his influence

04:11 to make his collections more expensive.

04:13 Mostly, that's why they buy them

04:16 because that's what they want to pray for.

04:20 You know, you're going through something in life.

04:22 What you want is to pray.

04:24 Not all saints need to earn money.

04:27 Sometimes, what I do,

04:29 "Do you have a table or items that you don't want anymore?

04:32 Can we swap?

04:34 I'll add more."

04:35 Of course, as a collector,

04:37 I can't pray for all of that.

04:39 Some of these people

04:41 have already buried in their local chapels.

04:44 What's extraordinary about the old saints

04:48 is that you know that the color has faded,

04:51 the wood is gone.

04:53 And also, the connection to the past.

04:58 You can see that in the saints.

05:00 The one in the chapel,

05:03 the one in Virgen de la Rosa,

05:05 the big one,

05:06 because she's my patron saint.

05:08 We have a problem, we have wishes.

05:10 I request her,

05:14 "Help me with this.

05:15 Give me back my love in life."

05:18 That's the love that Virgen de la Rosa gave me.

05:23 There are also various stories of ancient images in Eddie's house,

05:27 like the two images of St. Paul.

05:30 Since I was buy and sell back then,

05:32 I didn't have that much money,

05:34 I sold it.

05:36 That's our patron saint in this town.

05:38 I looked for her.

05:39 Eventually,

05:41 someone offered me a loan.

05:44 But it was more expensive,

05:45 the price was three times more than what I had sold.

05:48 I bought her.

05:49 The time came,

05:50 someone sold me St. Paul,

05:53 the first Hermit in the Church Of Christ,

05:54 the one in Luzon.

05:55 That's how my personal collection became.

05:58 He also sold an image back then

06:00 and he looked for it again

06:02 to return it to his collection.

06:04 I sold the image, but only the body,

06:06 without the hands.

06:07 When I saw the picture, I said,

06:09 "This is beautiful."

06:10 So I looked for it again and again.

06:12 When I saw it again, it was already complete.

06:14 It had arms,

06:15 it had the cross that was holding it.

06:19 There was no money involved.

06:21 I just bought a more expensive and better crucifix.

06:25 Through images,

06:27 he reminds us of the good deeds

06:30 and sacrifices of the saints back then.

06:32 As a Catholic,

06:33 it's nice to buy

06:35 a vintage, pre-war, or antique saint

06:38 because it's part of the culture and history.

06:42 Even if the origin of the saints is different,

06:45 you can still see the beauty.

06:48 It's nice to feel that

06:49 the part of the past

06:52 is just beside you.

06:53 The image is not God.

06:58 If it's not an image,

06:59 God is not in the image.

07:02 Our faith in God

07:05 is often lost.

07:06 The sense of the sacred.

07:08 In the Church Of Christ's Church Of Christ,

07:11 faith in God,

07:13 even if it's past,

07:15 should not be old and lost.

07:19 I'm Tina Panganiban Perez,

07:21 and that is the story you need to know.

07:24 (music)

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